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Description: | Cricetulus Griseus No 738 Zenker kild by infect Leishmania Donovani (written on a piece of paper wrapped around the specimen). MANU PONTERCORVO,Guido. circa 1943 Glasgow University, Glasgow, Scotland. This is a specimen of the testes of *Cricetulus griseus barabensis*, the Chinese striped hamster fixed with Zenker's solution.
Zenker's solution. A stock solution consisting of mercuric chloride, potassium bichromate and sodium sulphate. The working solution consists of 95 % Zenker stock + 5 % glacial acetic acid. When glacial acetic acid has been replaced by formalin, it is called formol-Zenker fixative
Freidrich Albert von Zenker (1825-1898) German physician and pathologist
The specimen was obtained from an animal killed by infection with *Leishmania donovani (infantum)* parasitic hemoflagellate bacterium of the subgenus *Leishmania leishmania* that infects man and animals and causes visceral *leishmaniasis*; the sandfly genera Phlebotomus and Lutzomyia are the normal vectors."
Appears to be connected with work done on Chinese sandflies as vectors for *Leishmania* published in 1931 by professor Edward Hindle (1886-1973) Chair of Zoology at Glasgow University.. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | SCIENTIFIC COLLECTION : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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