|
Date: |
|
Description: | Striped hamster (Cricetulus griseus) infected with Leismania tropica. Different organs and tissues fixed in various ways [Material of Prof. E. Hindle prepared in London 1929 (?)] (written on a piece of paper in the box holding the specimens). YE 47 LE 60 T5 (incised into the wax block). MANU HINDLE,Edward. circa 1929 The Wellcome Building, Euston Road, London, England. This is a specimen of the ? testes of *Cricetulus griseus barabensis*, the Chinese striped hamster, possibly fixed with Bouin's fluid, made from a saturated aqueous solution of Picric acid, Formalin (40% aqueous formaldehyde) and Glacial Acetic Acid, and imbedded in paraffin wax. Pol Bouin (1870-1962) French endocrinologist and histologist.
The specimen was obtained from an animal killed by infection with *Leishmania tropica* a parasitic hemoflagellate bacterium, a subgenus of *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 |
|
|