Abstract
The effect of three polyether antibiotics (monensin, salinomycin, lasalocid) on developmental stages ofEimeria tenella (Coccidia, Sporozoa) was studied in vivo and in vitro by means of light and electron microscopy. It was found that these three drugs act against free merozoites, which are destroyed by bursting of the cell border (i.e. pellicle), endoplasmic reticulum and internal organelles even after very short exposure times (20 min) in media containing 1 ppm, 10 ppm or 100 ppm of these drugs. Sporozoites, however, survived these drug concentrations during an exposure time of 30 min (this would be sufficient to penetrate host cells and start development). Intracellular stages, which were situated in a parasitophorous vacuole within an intact host cell, were not attacked, apparently because these drugs are almost incapable of penetrating host cells. On the other hand, parasites (such as differentiated schizonts, gamonts) located within degenerating host cells showed slight disintegration, which did not necessarily led to their death. From these results it becomes clear why these polyether antibiotics have to be fed daily. Doses of 70 ppm salinomycin, 125 ppm monensin and 125 ppm lasalocid were found to bring about an equivalent protective effect against an infection with 40,000Eimeria tenella oocysts.
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Abbreviations
- A:
-
Amylopectin
- C:
-
Conoid
- DH:
-
Degenerating host cell
- DP:
-
Developmental stages
- DR:
-
Ductules of rhoptries
- DS:
-
Developmental schizonts
- EPN:
-
Enlarged perinuclear space
- EV:
-
Enlarged vacuoles
- EW2 :
-
Enlarged wall-forming bodies II
- HC:
-
Host cell
- LU:
-
Interior of crypts
- M:
-
Merozoites
- MA:
-
Macrogametes
- MG:
-
Microgamonts
- MI:
-
Mitochondria
- MN:
-
Micronemes
- N:
-
Nucleus
- NH:
-
Nucleus of host cell
- NU:
-
Nucleolus
- OC:
-
Oocyst
- PE:
-
Pellicle
- PN:
-
Perinuclear space
- PV:
-
Parasitophorous vacuole
- R:
-
Rhoptries
- RB:
-
Residual body
- RF:
-
Refractile body
- RM:
-
Remnants of micronemes
- RMI:
-
Remnants of mitochondria
- S:
-
Mature schizont
- ST:
-
Subpellicular microtubules
- V:
-
Vacuole
- W1 :
-
Wall-forming body I
- W2 :
-
Wall-forming body II
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Mehlhorn, H., Pooch, H. & Raether, W. The action of polyether ionophorous antibiotics (monensin, salinomycin, lasalocid) on developmental stages ofEimeria tenella (Coccidia, Sporozoa) in vivo and in vitro: Study by light and electron microscopy. Z. Parasitenkd. 69, 457–471 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00927702
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