A latência parasitêmica na infecção do Gallus gallus pelo Plasmodlum lophurae

A fragment of malaria history

“…In the contemporaneous literature the longest latency of the infection in chickens had been recorded by Taliaferro and Taliaferro (1940) and Terzian (1946): up to 4 months and about 46 days, respectively. In my experiments (Paraense 1948) the infection in baby chicks survived in a latent state for an observation period of 330 days.…”