Abstract
Each of SPF chicken(Hi-Line strain, 2-day-old males) was inoculated with 2.5 or $5\times10^4$ oocysts by stomach tube. The oocyst was the medium type of Cryptosporidium previously isolated from Korean chicken origin, and passed in 2-day-old SPF chicken. The patterns of oocyst discharge were monitored daily, and in order to observe the ultrastructure of the developmental stages, the bursa of Fabricius of the chicken was examined by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) on the 12th day postinoculation. The prepatent period for 8 chicken was 5.9 days postinoculation on the average, and the patent period was 12.9 days. The number of oocysts discharged per day for the chicken was reached peak on day 12 postinoculation on the average. A large number of oocysts was found in fecal samples obtained from inoculated chicken on days 8~14 postinoculation. The ultrastructural feature of almost every developmental stage of the medium type from chicken was very similar to that of Cryptosporidium previously isolated from mammalia including human and birds except for the attachment site of C. tsuris to the mucus cell from mammalia, but dimension of the oocysts from fecal samples of the medium type was different from those of C. meleagridis and mammalia origin. The above results reveal that the medium type of Cryptosporidium of Korean chicken origin is identified as Cryptosporidium baileyi.
한국산 닭으로부터 분리한 크립토스포리디움(Cryptosporidium)의 중형 오오시스트를 SPF 병아리에 경구투여하여 그 분변속에의 오오시스트의 크기 및 배출양상과 파브리시우스낭 조직에서 많이 발견되는 여러 발육기의 미세구조를 관찰하였다. 병아리에 있어서 prepateat period는 평균 5.9일간, patent period는 $12.87{\pm}3.4$일간, 오오시스트 배출 정점기는 접종후 $12{\pm}2.78$일째, 그리고 일반적으로 8일째부터 14일째까지 1주일간에 걸적 다수의 오오시스트가 분변으로 배출되었다. 이 원충의 거의 모든 발육기의 미세구조는 C. muris를 제외한 사람을 포함한 포유동물과 조류에서 이미 발견된 것들과 거의 비슷하지만 분변으로 배출되는 오오시스트의 크기는 Kinyoun 항산염색(변법)표본에서 $5.24{\pm}0.44{\times}4.86{\pm}0.37{\mu\textrm{m}}$, 오스윰산 증기고정 Giemsa 염색표본에서 $6.06{\pm}0.23{\times)4.86{\pm}0.34$\mu\textrm{m}$이었다. 이상의 연구결과를 기초로 하여 한국산 닭유래 크립토스포리디움을 C. baileyi라고 동정한다.