PLASMODIUM JUXTANUCLEARE ASSOCIATED WITH MORTALITY IN BLACK-FOOTED PENGUINS (SPHENISCUS DEMERSUS) ADMITTED TO A REHABILITATION CENTER
Abstract
Five black-footed penguins (Spheniscus demersus) admitted to the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds, in Cape Town, South Africa, died from malaria infection. Evidence for malaria as the cause of death included antemortem clinical signs, parasitemia, splenomegaly, pulmonary edema, and the presence of histologically visible schizonts in the reticuloendothelial system. A portion of the malarial small subunit ribosomal ribonucleic acid gene was detected by polymerase chain reaction from postmortem blood samples from all the birds. A species-specific variable region of this gene was compared with the same region on genes from other known avian malarial organisms, establishing that Plasmodium juxtanucleare was involved.
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The possibility exists of spreading a pathogenic species of avian malaria from rehabilitated birds into the wild population.
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Sherley, R. B., Waller, L. J., Strauss, V., Geldenhuys, D., Underhill, L. G., & Parsons, N. J. (2014) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0110794 · Cited by 34 · see citing works
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- Authors
- Grim, K. C., Van der Merwe, E., Sullivan, M., Parsons, N., McCutchan, T. F., & Cranfield, M.
- Affiliations
- National Institutes of Health (US)
- South African Astronomical Observatory (ZA)
- ORCID
- Parsons, Nola
- Venue
- Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine
- Published
- 2003-09
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 250-255
- ISSN
- 1042-7260 (ISSN-L)
- 1937-2825
- OpenAlex
- W2118345837
- Cited by
- 61
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 0.53
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- BioOne Complete (BioOne) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Parasitology › Bird parasitology and diseases
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Malaria Research and Control
- Health Sciences › Veterinary › Small Animals › Helminth infection and control
- Keywords
- Plasmodium juxtanucleare, Spheniscus demersus, avian malaria, splenomegaly, pulmonary edema, schizonts, reticuloendothelial system, small subunit rRNA gene, species identification, zoo animal disease
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Animals, Wild, Base Sequence, Birds, Hepatomegaly, Malaria, Avian, Plasmodium, South Africa, Species Specificity, Splenomegaly, DNA, Protozoan, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Sequence Alignment, Parasitemia
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