First report of avian malaria in a Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus).
Haemosporida
Neotropics
Pathogen spill-over
Procellariidae
Seabird
Vector-borne pathogen
Journal
Parasitology international
ISSN: 1873-0329
Titre abrégé: Parasitol Int
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 9708549
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Oct 2020
Oct 2020
Historique:
received:
27
03
2020
revised:
19
05
2020
accepted:
22
05
2020
pubmed:
29
5
2020
medline:
4
3
2021
entrez:
29
5
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
This study reports the case of a Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus) that died from avian malaria while under care at a rehabilitation center in Espírito Santo, Brazil. The bird was rescued on October 2018, and remained under care until it died suddenly on January 2019. A blood smear produced 8 days before death was negative for parasites, whereas a blood smear produced post-mortem revealed a high parasitemia by a parasite resembling Plasmodium cathemerium. The sequence of a 412 bp segment of the cyt-b gene was identical to that of lineage PADOM09, and phylogenetic analysis corroborated that this parasite was closely-related to known lineages of P. cathemerium. The acuteness and severity of the infection documented in this case suggest that seabirds of the order Procellariiformes might be highly susceptible to Plasmodium infections, raising the concern that avian malaria may present a significant threat to their conservation.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32464257
pii: S1383-5769(20)30098-2
doi: 10.1016/j.parint.2020.102148
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Case Reports
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
102148Informations de copyright
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Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.