Plasmodium relictum
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 Plasmodium that infect birds ...parasites, Plasmodium relictum, consists of several different lineages (e g, SGS1, GRW4, GRW11, LZFUS01), is found on all continents except Antarctica and is ...
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Exposure of the mosquito vector Culex pipiens to the malaria parasite Plasmodium relictum: effect of infected blood intake on immune and antioxidant defences, fecundity and survival
... of Plasmodium parasites on vector life history traits will depend on in- trinsic characteristics of the host-parasite association under ...vector- Plasmodium , studies may differ substantially in terms of ...
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Molecular identification of the chitinase genes in Plasmodium relictum
... genus Plasmodium show distinct differences in their distribution and prevalence ...is Plasmodium relictum, found to in- fect more than 70 different bird species, whereas ...[19]). Plasmodium ...
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Plasmodium relictum as a cause of avian malaria in wild-caught Magellanic penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus)
... This paper presents the first record of a vian malaria in ca pH ve Magellanic penguins (Spheniscus magel- lanicus), reviews clinical and pathological features of thi[r] ...
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Analysis of the trap gene provides evidence for the role of elevation and vector abundance in the genetic diversity of Plasmodium relictum in Hawaii
... P. relictum in captured mosquitoes aver- aged across all trap-nights at a site during the estimated lifetime of the bird), Elevation (mid or low, treated as a categorical variable), and Year (of host ...
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Insecticide resistance and malaria transmission: infection rate and oocyst burden in Culex pipiens mosquitoes infected with Plasmodium relictum
... This paper aims to reply to the following three ques- tions: 1) Do insecticide resistant mosquitoes have a dif- ferent probability of infection than susceptible ones? 2) Do infected insecticide resistant mosquitoes ...
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Characterization of Plasmodium relictum, a cosmopolitan agent of avian malaria
... P. relictum on both mor- phological and molecular grounds and provide new data about specificity and development of this infection in experimentally infected avian ...P. relictum using the same ...P. ...
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Avian malaria in introduced, native and endemic New Zealand bird species in a mixed ecosystem
... comm.). Plasmodium elongatum lineage GRW06 is widespread in New Zealand and has been found in a large variety of bird species (Alley et ...2005). Plasmodium relictum lineage GRW4 is considered to be ...
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Malaria parasites and related haemosporidians cause mortality in cranes: a study on the parasites diversity, prevalence and distribution in Beijing Zoo
... of Plasmodium (5 lineages), Haemoproteus (1) and Leucocytozoon (2) were ...of Plasmodium, indicating that chicks got infection from non-parent ...birds. Plasmodium relictum (pSGS1) was the ...
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Both infected and uninfected mosquitoes are attracted toward malaria infected birds
... human [8] and avian [9] Plasmodium sp. infections. Using the avian malaria parasite Plasmodium relictum (lineage SGS1), Cornet et al. have recently shown that malaria infection increases the ...
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Diagnosis of an imported Plasmodium ovale wallikeri infection in Malaysia
... A 19-year-old, Nigerian college student presented to Sunway Medical Centre, Selangor, Malaysia with a 4-day history of fever associated with chills, rigors and body ache. Prior to onset of symptoms, he had gone back to ...
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Malaria like symptoms associated with a natural Plasmodium reichenowi infection in a chimpanzee
... Although Plasmodium infections have never been clearly associated with symptoms in non-human primates, the question of the pathogenicity of Plasmodium parasites in non-human primates still remains ...high ...
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Differential activity of methylene blue against erythrocytic and hepatic stages of Plasmodium
... of Plasmodium development: liver stages, including hypnozoites, and blood stages, includ- ing gametocytes, thereby also blocking parasite trans- mission to ...with Plasmodium liver stages is still an open ...
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Diversity of malaria parasites in great apes in Gabon
... new Plasmodium species were discovered in African non-human primates, espe- cially great apes ...of Plasmodium infections from faecal samples [2,6], despite inherent problems of DNA degradation with this ...
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Usefulness of Seminested Multiplex PCR in Surveillance of Imported Malaria in Spain
... The most prevalent Plasmodium species in the samples, con- sidering the SnM-PCR results, was P. falciparum (68%), which was present in 59 samples as a single infection and in nine other cases as a mixed infection. ...
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In Vitro Alterations Do Not Reflect a Requirement for Host Cell Cycle Progression during Plasmodium Liver Stage Infection
... that Plasmodium sporozoites preferentially invade cells with a ploidy greater than 2N, though the basis for this preference re- mains unknown ...that Plasmodium liver stages harness the host cell cycle to ...
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Malaria in Mauritania: retrospective and prospective overview
... and Plasmodium species distribution are critical for guiding national efforts to improve laboratory diagnosis, imple- ment rapid and effective treatment, and coordinate and plan malaria elimination from the ...
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Prospective evaluation of artemether lumefantrine for the treatment of non falciparum and mixed species malaria in Gabon
... [11-13]. Plasmodium falciparum isolates are highly resistant to chloroquine and sensitivity to antifolate anti-malarials has decreased [14-16], hence ACT has become the first-line treatment of malaria ...
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Large scale malaria survey in Cambodia: Novel insights on species distribution and risk factors
... side village' ('farmer', 'military'), and 'other' ('fisher', 'ven- dor', 'NGO agent', 'unknown'). The axillary temperature was measured and splenomegaly was determined using the Hackett classification (grade 1–5). For ...
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Ten year trend analysis of malaria prevalence in Kola Diba, North Gondar, Northwest Ethiopia
... and Plasmodium vivax are the two predominant malaria parasites, distributed all over the country and accounting for 60% and 40% of malaria cases, ...by Plasmodium falciparum ...
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