Word: protozoa
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...blackest horror in darkest Africa is sleeping sickness. Very different from encephalitis lethargica, the sleeping sickness found in the U. S., this disease is caused by trypanosomes (parasitic protozoa) carried by the tsetse fly. Its toll is about 100,000 human victims a year and all the domestic animals the tsetse fly can find...
Half of it was given to Dr. L. R. Cleveland of Johns Hopkins University for research into the physiology of protozoa inhabiting the digestive tracts of termites and other animals. These protozoa are far from being the smallest animals known, but the layman can get an idea of their size from the fact that they dwell in the intestines of white ants...
...Harvard Zoological Club. Address on "The Problem of Sex in the Protozoa," by Mr. J. W. Mavor, in Zoological Lecture Room, University Museum, fourth floor, Room...
...Harvard Zoological Club. Address on "The Problem of Sex in the Protozoa," by Mr. J. W. Mavor, in Zoological Lecture Room, University Museum, fourth floor, Room...
...ZOOLOGICAL CLUB. "The Cultivation of Protozoa in Artificial Media. Mr. E. L. Walker. Short Papers. Zoological Laboratories, Fourth Floor, M. Z., Room...