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An aberrant form of Leucocytozoon infection characterized by the presence of spindle-shaped groups of megaloschizonts in skeletal muscle of two quaker parakeets (Myiopsitta monachus) is described.
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Borst, G.H.A., Zwart, P. An aberrant form of Leucocytozoon infection in two quaker parakeets (Myiopsitta monachus Boddaert, 1783). Z. Parasitenk. 40, 131–138 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00329148
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