Molecular Ecology Resources, Volume 22, Issue 8, Page 2915-2927, November 2022., 2022 Abstract Many emerging infectious diseases originate from wild animals, so there is a profound need for surveillance and monitoring of their pathogens. However, the practical difficulty of sample acquisition from wild animals tends to limit the feasibility and effectiveness of such surveys.
Solomon Mwakasungula +20 more
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Exploring the thermal limits of malaria transmission in the western Himalaya
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 12, Issue 9, September 2022., 2022 Our study promotes new understanding of parasite transmission biology and the importance of accounting for fine‐scale thermal effects in the expansion of the range of the malaria parasite with global climate change. Using two human malaria and five avian vector‐borne parasites, we show that the contrasting thermal environments that can exist across ...
Farhina Mozaffer +2 more
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Avian Haemosporidian blood parasite infections at a migration hotspot in Eilat, Israel [PDF]
, 2016 Haemosporidian blood parasites are frequent amongst passerines. Though they often do not cause detectable consequences to host health, however, their presence or absence and also their prevalence across host populations may potentially carry ...
Paperna, Ilan +2 more
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Sex and nest type influence avian blood parasite prevalence in a high-elevation bird community
Parasites & Vectors, 2021 Background The prevalence of avian haemosporidian parasites and the factors influencing infection in the Colorado Rocky Mountains are largely unknown. With climate change expected to promote the expansion of vector and avian blood parasite distributions,
Marina D. Rodriguez +3 more
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Avian malaria is absent in juvenile colonial herons (Ardeidae) but not Culex pipiens mosquitoes in the Camargue, Southern France [PDF]
, 2015 Apicomplexan blood parasites Plasmodium and Haemoproteus (together termed “Avian malaria”) and Leucocytozoon are widespread, diverse vector-transmitted blood parasites of birds, and conditions associated with colonial nesting in herons (Ardeidae) and ...
Stephen D. Larcombe +16 more
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Avian malaria co-infections confound infectivity and vector competence assays of Plasmodium homopolare. [PDF]
, 2018 Currently, there are very few studies of avian malaria that investigate relationships among the host-vector-parasite triad concomitantly. In the current study, we experimentally measured the vector competence of several Culex mosquitoes for a newly ...
Barker, Christopher M +5 more
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Avian Malaria Among House Sparrows: a Survey of Disease and Mosquito Vectors (Diptera: Culicidae) in Reed City, Michigan [PDF]
, 2017 Nine of 350 house sparrows caught in Reed City, Michigan, had malaria parasites detectable on Giemsa-stained thin films. All of the infected birds were juveniles, Parasitemias were too low to permit identification of the Plasmodium present. Collection of
Freier, Jerome E, Gogolin, Luanne R
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Mitochondrial genes support a common origin of rodent malaria parasites and Plasmodium falciparum's relatives infecting great apes [PDF]
, 2011 International audienceBackground Plasmodium falciparum is responsible for the most acute form of human malaria. Most recent studies demonstrate that it belongs to a monophyletic lineage specialized in the infection of great ape hosts.
Blanquart, Samuel, Gascuel, Olivier
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Parasites & Vectors, 2020 Background Accurate quantification of infection intensity is essential to estimate infection patterns of avian haemosporidian parasites in order to understand the evolution of host-parasite associations.
Xi Huang +8 more
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Avian blood parasites in an endangered columbid: Leucocytozoon marchouxi in the Mauritian Pink Pigeon Columba mayeri [PDF]
, 2007 There is increasing evidence that pathogens can play a significant role in species decline. This study of a complete free-living species reveals a cost of blood parasitism to an endangered host, the Pink Pigeon Columba mayeri, endemic to Mauritius.
A. G. GREENWOOD +12 more
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