Plasmodium relictum (lineage SGS1) and Plasmodium ashfordi (lineage GRW2): The effects of the co-infection on experimentally infected passerine birds

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 527-533

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

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b Zoological Institute   (Russian Federation)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Avian malaria; Birds; Co infection; Experimental infection; GRW2; Parasitemia; Plasmodium ashfordi; Plasmodium relictum; SGS1; Susceptibility

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AVIAN MALARIA; BIRD; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HEMATOCRIT; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LOXIA CURVIROSTRA; MIXED INFECTION; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM ASHFORDI; PLASMODIUM RELICTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINUS SPINUS; STURNUS VULGARIS;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEMATOCRIT; MALARIA, AVIAN; PARASITEMIA; PASSERIFORMES; PLASMODIUM;

AVES; CARDUELIS; LOXIA; LOXIA CURVIROSTRA; PASSERIFORMES; PLASMODIUM RELICTUM; STURNIDAE; STURNUS VULGARIS;

EID: 78751591379     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2010.10.007     Document Type: Article

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