Leucocytozoon andrewsi n. sp., from Chickens Observed in a Survey of Blood Parasites in Domestic Animals in South Carolina

Leucocytozoon Disease of Turkeys

“…Skidmore (1931) found that only turkeys were infected with L. smithi in a study in Nebraska even though chickens, ducks, and geese were in the vicinity. Atchley (1951) likewise reported that turkeys were infected with L. smithi, but that guineas, ducks, geese, and chickens were free of L. smithi in the same survey in South Carolina. Chickens were infected with another species which he called L. andrewsi.…”

Haemoproteus in Wild Turkeys from the Coastal Bend of South Texas*

“…In 1953, Love, Wilkin, and Goodwin( 12) found one of two wild turkeys in Georgia infected. The parasite was found earlier in domestic turkeys, having been reported in 1941 in the District of Columbia by Wetmore( 16), and subsequently in Texas by Morehouse (13), in North Dakota by Goldsby ( 7), in Georgia by Atchley ( 1), and in South Carolina by Bierer, Vickers, and Thomas ( 2).…”