Crossword-Solution: COCCOID 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

These granules, or "coccoid bodies," as Hindle calls them, are supposed to be the form in which the spirochætes infect the new host.

According to Leishman, and Hindle, the coccoid bodies are not injected into the vertebrate host with the saliva of the tick, as are the sporozoites of malaria with that of the mosquito.

When the spirochætes disappear from the circulation, some of them break up into the coccoid bodies which, however, do not usually develop in the fowl.

From this medium they bore their way into the cells of the various organs of the tick and there break up into a number of coccoid bodies.

The result is that some of the coccoid bodies may be present in the Malpighian secretion and excrement of an infected tick and when mixed with the coxal fluid may gain entry into another fowl by the open wound caused by the tick's bite.