ArticleMalaria journal2017
Extremely low Plasmodium prevalence in wild plovers and coursers from Cape Verde and Madagascar.
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- Hemoparasites in Wild Birds: A Systematic Review of Their Ecology and Clinical Implications.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Review
- Prevalence and Transmission Cycle of Avian Pathogens in the Isolated Oceanic Islands of Japan.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Sex differences in immune gene expression in the brain of a small shorebird.Immunogenetics · 2022Article
- First records of prevalence and diversity of avian haemosporidia in snipe species (genusInternational journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2021Article
- Louse flies of Eleonora's falcons that also feed on their prey are evolutionary dead-end hosts for blood parasites.Molecular ecology · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundRelatively little is known about the prevalence of blood parasites in shorebirds, especially those breeding in the tropics. The prevalence of blood parasites of the genera Plasmodium, Haemoproteus and Leucocytozoon was assessed in blood samples from Kentish plovers and cream-coloured coursers in Cape Verde, and samples of Kittlitz's plovers, Madagascar plovers and white-fronted plovers in Madagascar.
resultsOnly two of these samples were positive for Plasmodium: a Kittlitz's plover was infected by a generalist lineage of Plasmodium that has already been reported in Europe and Africa, while in a white-fronted plover direct sequencing revealed a previously un-described Plasmodium lineage.
conclusionPotential explanations for the low prevalence of blood parasites include the scarcity of vectors in habitats used by these bird species and their resistance to parasitic infections.
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