The occurrence ofPneumocystis cariniiin mice in England

Abstract

A fertile source of error in protozoology is to be found in the overlooking of the occurrence of mixed infections in a host. Two organisms, each independent of the other, may happen to coexist in the intestine of an insect or the blood of a vertebrate, the result being that the investigator may confuse stages in the life-cycles of parasites which are not related to each other. This source of error has led to unwarranted generalisations which have impeded scientific progress for years. Two examples at once come to mind—the trouble wrought by Schaudinn in 1904 in confusing the life-cycles of the protozoa found in the little owl, and the impediment put in the way of progress by the omission of certain workers to recognise that Crithidia grayi was not a part of the life-cycle of a trypanosome. The existence of mixed infections was overlooked in each case.

Meta-Analysis and Systematic Literature Review of the Genus Pneumocystis in Pet, Farm, Zoo, and Wild Mammal Species

“…Lophuromys makundii (Makundi's brush furred rat) [114], Mastomys natalensis (African soft-furred rat) [114], Maxomys surifer (Indomalayan maxomys) [118,119], Meriones unguiculatus (Mongolian gerbil) [6], Micromys minutus (European harvest mouse) [92,115], Mus caroli (Ryukyu mouse) [118,119], Mus cervicolor (fawn-colored mouse) [118,119], Mus cookie (Cook's mouse) [118,119], Mus minutoides (Southern African pygmy mouse) [114], Mus musculus (house mouse) [6][7][8]10,86,94,115,[120][121][122], Mus pahari (shrew mouse) [118], Mus saxicola (spiny mouse) [6], Mus triton (gray-bellied mouse) [114], Myomyscus brockmani (Brockman's Myomyscus) [114], Niviventer fulvescens (chestnut white-bellied rat) [118,119], Otomys angoniensis (Angoni vlei rat) [114], Praomys delectorum (delectable soft-furred mouse) [114], Rattus andamanensis (Indochinese forest rat) [118,119], Rattus argentiventer (rice-field rat) [118,119], Rattus everetti (Philippine forest rat) [118], Rattus exulans (Polynesian rat) [118,119], Rattus nitidus (white-footed Indochinese rat) [118,119], Rattus norvegic...…”