Z. Pecka, INTRANUCLEAR DEVELOPMENT OF ASEXUAL AND SEXUAL GENERATIONS OF EIMERIA-HERMANI FARR, 1953, THE COCCIDIAN PARASITE OF GEESE, Zentralblatt fur Bakteriologie, 278(4), 1993, pp. 570-576
Both merogonic and gamogonic stages of Eimeria hermani occurred within
the nucleus of epithelial cells of the intestine of experimentally in
fected goslings (Anser anser domesticus L.). They were located within
a parasitophorous vacuole. Several developing meronts were often obser
ved in one host nucleus and each of them had its own parasitophorous v
acuole. We suppose that two generations of meronts were formed by ecto
merogony from 2 to 4 days post infection (DPI). During the gamogony (4
-6 DPI), we observed invagination of the host cell nucleoplasm into th
e parasites and we suppose that this may be connected with the process
of the parasit's feeding.