Research Article
Pathological Study of Blood Parasites in Rice Field Frogs, Hoplobatrachus rugulosus (Wiegmann, 1834)
Table 1
The average parasitemias of the infected frogs that were apparently infected with just one species of blood parasite.
| Blood parasite | Prevalence (%) (+ve/total frogs) | Average parasitemias (percentages of erythrocyte infected, mean ± SD) |
| Trypanosoma rotatorium-like organism | 11.4% (16/140) | 0.01 ± 0.01 | Trypanosoma chattoni | 22.2% (31/140) | 0.01 ± 0.01 | Hepatozoon sp. a | 4.3% (6/140) | 0.12 ± 0.18 | Hepatozoon sp. b | 1.4% (2/140) | 0.12 ± 0.20 | Lankesterella minima | 7.1% (10/140) | 0.15 ± 0.45 |
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