avian malaria
Identification and characterization of the merozoite surface protein 1 (msp1) gene in a host generalist avian malaria parasite, Plasmodium relictum (lineages SGS1 and GRW4) with the use of blood transcriptome
... of avian malariae species. In the p19 section of the avian malaria parasite peptides, it was also possible to identify the two epidermal growth factor-like domains (EGF), based on the six conserved ...
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MHC genetic diversity and avian malaria prevalence in Mokoia Island saddlebacks
... Unlike Hawaiian species, New Zealand native birds may have had an association with Plasmodium spp. that pre-dates human colonisation (i.e. before 1000 years ago; Baillie & Brunton 2011; Ewen et al. 2012; Howe et al. ...
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Temporal changes in mosquito abundance (Culex pipiens), avian malaria prevalence and lineage composition
... Plasmodium vaughani (SYAT05 lineage) and Plasmodium relictum (SGS1 lineage) were the two most prevalent par- asites (50.6% and 34.3%), a result similar to previous sur- veys conducted across Europe [41,42,45]. Both ...
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Identifying avian malaria vectors: sampling methods influence outcomes
... of avian mal- aria by mosquitoes reported in this study does provide some support for the hypothesis that vector mosquito species can influence the structuring of avian malaria parasites in host ...
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Epidemiology and pathology of avian malaria in penguins undergoing rehabilitation in Brazil
... Seabird rehabilitation is a valuable strategy to mitigate the impacts of oil pollution and other anthropogenic factors, and can significantly contribute to the conservation of penguins. However, infectious diseases such ...
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Genetic variation of avian malaria in the tropical Andes: a relationship with the spatial distribution of hosts
... because avian hosts also have a more or less limited distribution by altitudinal zones in the tropical Andes ...on avian malaria infection ...
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Sporogony and sporozoite rates of avian malaria parasites in wild Culex pipiens pallens and C inatomii in Japan
... Mosquitoes were collected in Rinshi-no-mori park (35° 37′ N, 139°42′ E) in Tokyo and Sakata wetland (37° 49′ N, 138° 53′ E) in Niigata, Japan, where transmission of multiple avian malaria parasites has been ...
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Screening blood fed mosquitoes for the diagnosis of filarioid helminths and avian malaria
... In this study 267 blood-fed mosquitoes were caught with the M-360 electronic mosquito trap in Szeged, Southern Hungary in June 2013. The molecular screening revealed that not only D. immitis was present in the analyzed ...
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Avian malaria alters the dynamics of blood feeding in Culex pipiens mosquitoes
... years, avian malaria has emerged as a unique animal model for understanding the ecology and evolu- tion of Plasmodium parasites ...of avian Plasmodium parasites: their ability to modify the feeding ...
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Avian malaria prevalence and mosquito abundance in the Western Cape, South Africa
... analogous co-variation. Instead, they varied in a contrasting fashion and were indirectly linked by season and rainfall. The presence of infected birds at a site typically indicates the presence of a vector species; ...
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Mosquitoes in the Danube Delta: searching for vectors of filarioid helminths and avian malaria
... Overall, 284 pools comprising 5855 mosquitoes belong- ing to 11 species included in six genera (Table 1) which are known to be present in the Danube Delta region [4, 34], were screened for the presence of DNA of ...
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Exo erythrocytic development of avian malaria and related haemosporidian parasites
... human malaria researchers who used these bird parasites, mainly of subgenera Haemamoeba and Giovannolaia as models for better understanding of human disease between the 1930s and 60s (reviews in [2–5, 7–9, 52, 54, ...
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Searching for putative avian malaria vectors in a Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest in Brazil
... of avian malaria parasites in Brazil, even though we did not find positive thoraces among the samples ...in avian malaria transmission and further studies will add information about ...
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Avian malaria on Madagascar: bird hosts and putative vector mosquitoes of different Plasmodium lineages
... of avian malaria parasites in potential mosquito vectors and avian hosts using molecular techniques and to esti- mate infection rates among mosquito populations in the Maromizaha rainforest located ...
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Keys to the avian malaria parasites
... several malaria parasites are not unpredictable ...different avian hosts, calling for careful application of minor differences in blood stage morphology in avian malaria parasite taxonomy, ...
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Diversity and distribution of avian malaria and related haemosporidian parasites in captive birds from a Brazilian megalopolis
... of avian malaria and there is no good solutions how to stop distribution of this disease [31, ...in avian haemosporidian para- sites because of lack of effective drugs, which are effective against ...
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Avian malaria parasites (Plasmodium spp.) in Dunedin and on the Otago Peninsula, southern New Zealand
... reports of high seroprevalence to malarial antibodies in wild New Zealand penguins (Graczyk et al. 1995; McDonald 2003). With a yellow-eyed penguin population crash having occurred in the Dunedin and Otago Peninsula ...
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Mosquito age and avian malaria infection
... Here, the effect of age on both mosquito immunity and susceptibility to a Plasmodium infection are quantified using an experimental system consisting on the avian malaria parasite Plasmodium relictum and ...
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Avian malaria in introduced, native and endemic New Zealand bird species in a mixed ecosystem
... Abstract: Avian malaria, caused by Plasmodium spp., has been reported as a cause of morbidity and mortality in New Zealand bird populations. The prevalence of Plasmodium lineages in the Waimarino Forest was ...
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Coquillettidia (Culicidae, Diptera) mosquitoes are natural vectors of avian malaria in Africa
... the avian Plasmodium para- sites can be consistently isolated from wild caught Coquil- lettidia ...for avian malaria assuming these mosquitoes are susceptible at least to some of the detected ...
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