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CheriS
at Sun Aug 3 14:50:58 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by CheriS ]
I think you will find that the cricket feces is clear of coccidia, to the best of my knowledge they can not act as an intermediate host to complete the live cycle, any eggs ingested by them can not mature and die off. But what you will find and I have seen, if you look at the legs under a mircoscope of a cricket that has been in with any infected reptile, food sources, water or surface that have eggs, the developing oocysts are attached to the legs of them, which is ingested by animals and liberates the sporozoites contained in them.
Oocysts that the vet is seeing under a mircoscope, they can not identify the species, they do not contain sporozoites yet.
Many people do not realize that Coccidia exist in almost any enviroment and most animals. Most are species specific but some can cross over species. One of the most commone vectors of transmission is water, either drank or used to spray on fruits and vegetables or run offs from agriculture. They have been found on new egg crates!!!!!
In small amounts any animals immune system can deal with them, its when you have conditions of crowding, poor sanitation, and stress that casues them to become overloaded and infections with coccidia become serious.
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Coccidia and crickets - CheriS, Sun Aug 3 14:50:58 2003