Ultrastructural study of host-parasite relationship and pathogenicity of Eimeria sp. infecting Libyan Jird [Meriones libycus] [lichtenstein, 1828]

ABSTRACT

The relationship of Eimeria sp. and its host fat LibyanJird [Meriones libycus] was studied on an ultrastructural level. The host cellular organelles [nucleus, mitochondria, endoplasmic reticulum and golgi apparatus] and the changes of its infected intestinal epithelial cells during the development of parasitic stages [schizogony and gamogony] were studied and compared with those non-infected cells. The ultrastructures of intravacuolar tubules and folds in the parasitophorous vacuole [P.V.] were described. These fine structures may involve in the transport-tation of materials from the host cell to across the parasitovorous vacuole [P.V.]