Plasmodium relictum (lineage P-SGS1): Further observation of effects on experimentally infected passeriform birds, with remarks on treatment with Malarone™

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 134-139

  Palinauskas, Vaidas ^a   Valkiunas, Gediminas ^a   Križanauskiene, Asta ^a   Bensch, Staffan ^b   Bolshakov, Casimir V ^c  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Zoological Institute   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Avian malaria; Carduelis chloris; Experimental infection; Fringilla coelebs; Fringillidae; Lineage P SGS1; Malarone ; Plasmodium relictum

Indexed keywords

ATOVAQUONE PLUS PROGUANIL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AVIAN MALARIA; BIRD; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; HEMATOCRIT; INOCULATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PARASITEMIA; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM RELICTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; ATOVAQUONE; CHLOROGUANIDE; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FINCHES; HEMATOCRIT; MALARIA, AVIAN; MALE; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIRULENCE;

AVES; CARDUELIS CHLORIS; FRINGILLA; FRINGILLA COELEBS; FRINGILLIDAE; PASSERIFORMES; PLASMODIUM RELICTUM;

EID: 68949166170     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2009.06.012     Document Type: Article

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