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Excerpt from The Journal of the Quekett Microscopical Club, Vol. 11: 1910-1912
To turn now to the methods by which Protozoan parasites penetrate into new hosts. We find four known methods, which can be summarised very briefly after what has been stated already. The commonest is the method of casual or contamina tive infection, where the host infects itself by taking up the propagative phases of the parasite accidentally from its surround ings. Most usually infection takes place by way of the mouth, with the food; but it may be effected by the respiratory organs. Other modes of infection are the contagious, as in dourine already mentioned; the inoculative, as in malaria and other diseases caused by blood-parasites and the so-called hereditary method, as in Nosema bombycis and other cases. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
