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Avian malaria in wild birds within a tropical dry forest area in Guatemala [PDF]

Neotropical Biology and Conservation
Urbanization is widely recognized as a driver of increased pathogen transmission, primarily through landscape modification and heightened contact rates between hosts and vectors, which can elevate parasite prevalence and virulence.
Michelle Bustamante-Castillo, Estefany De León-Robles, Manuel Alejandro Barrios-Izas, Lesbia Albertina Calderón-Aguirre   +3 more
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Investigation of avian malaria in domestic turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo): morphological and molecular phylogeny of Plasmodium spp. in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq

Open Veterinary Journal
Background: Hemoprotozoans belonging to the Plasmodium spp. are distributed worldwide, infecting various avian species, including both wild and domestic birds. Despite the risk of avian malaria, limited data underscore the need for a study on Plasmodium
Shadan Hassan Abdullah, Sazan Qadr Amin, Hadia Karim Zorab, Zhilan Hussain Yaba, Hawzheen Jamal Mahmood, Twana Salih Muhamed   +5 more
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High prevalence and lineage diversity of avian malaria in wild populations of great tits (Parus major) and mosquitoes (Culex pipiens).

PLoS ONE, 2012
Avian malaria studies have taken a prominent place in different aspects of evolutionary ecology. Despite a recent interest in the role of vectors within the complex interaction system of the malaria parasite, they have largely been ignored in most ...
Olivier Glaizot, Luca Fumagalli, Katia Iritano, Fabrice Lalubin, Juan Van Rooyen, Philippe Christe   +5 more
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Outbreak of avian malaria associated to multiple species of Plasmodium in magellanic penguins undergoing rehabilitation in southern Brazil. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
Avian malaria is a mosquito-borne disease caused by Plasmodium spp. Avian plasmodia are recognized conservation-threatening pathogens due to their potential to cause severe epizootics when introduced to bird populations with which they did not co-evolve.
Ralph Eric Thijl Vanstreels, Cristiane K M Kolesnikovas, Sandro Sandri, Patrícia Silveira, Nayara O Belo, Francisco C Ferreira Junior, Sabrina Epiphanio, Mário Steindel, Érika M Braga, José Luiz Catão-Dias   +9 more
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Plasmodium relictum infection in Culex quinquefasciatus (Culicidae) decreases diel flight activity but increases peak dusk flight activity

Malaria Journal, 2022
Background Parasites are recognized for their ability to modify host physiology and behaviours in ways that increase parasite fitness. Protozoan parasites of the genus Plasmodium are a group of widespread vector-borne parasites of vertebrates, causing ...
Dayvion R. Adams, Andrew J. Golnar, Jacob I. Meyers, Michel A. Slotman, Gabriel L. Hamer   +4 more
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Why Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum are so different? A tale of two clades and their species diversities

Malaria Journal, 2022
The global malaria burden sometimes obscures that the genus Plasmodium comprises diverse clades with lineages that independently gave origin to the extant human parasites.
Ananias A. Escalante, Axl S. Cepeda, M. Andreína Pacheco   +2 more
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Galactose‐α‐1,3‐galactose‐presenting bacterial families are associated with resistance to experimental avian malaria infection

Journal of Avian Biology
The gut microbiome can contribute to host health through defense against pathogens. However, links between the host gut microbiome and resistance to infection have been primarily investigated in humans and lab‐bred rodents, so we do not know to what ...
R. K. Noble, T. R. Kelly, C. R. Lattin
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Dynamics of prevalence and diversity of avian malaria infections in wild Culex pipiens mosquitoes: the effects of Wolbachia, filarial nematodes and insecticide resistance

Parasites & Vectors, 2014
Background Identifying the parasites transmitted by a particular vector and the factors that render this vector susceptible to the parasite are key steps to understanding disease transmission.
Flore Zélé, Juilen Vézilier, Gregory L’Ambert, Antoine Nicot, Sylvain Gandon, Ana Rivero, Olivier Duron   +6 more
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Identifying avian malaria vectors: sampling methods influence outcomes

Parasites & Vectors, 2015
Background The role of vectors in the transmission of avian malaria parasites is currently understudied. Many studies that investigate parasite-vector relationships use limited trapping techniques and/or identify potential competent vectors in the field ...
Jenny S. Carlson, Erika Walther, Rebecca TroutFryxell, Sarah Staley, Lisa A. Tell, Ravinder N. M. Sehgal, Christopher M. Barker, Anthony J. Cornel   +7 more
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Analysis of hematologic and serum chemistry values of Spheniscus magellanicus with molecular detection of avian malarial parasites (Plasmodium spp.)

Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira, 2014
Magellanic penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus) routinely migrate from their breeding colonies to Southern Brazil often contracting diseases during this migration, notably avian malaria, which has been already reported in Brazil and throughout the world ...
Sabrina D.E. Campos, Jeferson R. Pires, Cristiane L. Nascimento, Gustavo Dutra, Rodolpho A. Torres-Filho, Helena K. Toma, Beatriz Brener, Nádia R.P. Almosny   +7 more
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