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