TY - JOUR
T1 - Plasmodium juxtanucleare associated with mortality in black-footed penguins (Spheniscus demersus) admitted to a rehabilitation center
AU - Grim, K. Christiana
AU - Van Der Merwe, Estelle
AU - Sullivan, Margery
AU - Parsons, Nola
AU - McCutchan, Thomas F.
AU - Cranfield, Michael
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PY - 2003/9
Y1 - 2003/9
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Avian malaria
KW - Black-footed penguin
KW - Plasmodium juxtanucleare
KW - Polymerase chain reaction
KW - Spheniscus demersus
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U2 - 10.1638/02-070
DO - 10.1638/02-070
M3 - Article
C2 - 14582786
AN - SCOPUS:0242661157
SN - 1042-7260
VL - 34
SP - 250
EP - 255
JO - Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine
JF - Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine
IS - 3
ER -