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Pathogens. 2021 Jan 21;10(2). doi: 10.3390/pathogens10020103.

Avian Malaria and Related Parasites from Resident and Migratory Birds in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, with Description of a New .

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Carolina C Anjos, Carolina R F Chagas, Alan Fecchio, Fabio Schunck, Maria J Costa-Nascimento, Eliana F Monteiro, Bruno S Mathias, Jeffrey A Bell, Lilian O Guimarães, Kiba J M Comiche, Gediminas Valkiūnas, Karin Kirchgatter

Affiliations

  1. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Medicina Tropical, Instituto de Medicina Tropical, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo 05403-000, SP, Brazil.
  2. Nature Research Centre, 08412 Vilnius, Lithuania.
  3. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Conservação da Biodiversidade, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Cuiabá 78060-900, Brazil.
  4. Comitê Brasileiro de Registros Ornitológicos-CBRO, São Paulo 04785-040, SP, Brazil.
  5. Núcleo de Estudos em Malária, Superintendência de Controle de Endemias, Instituto de Medicina Tropical, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo 05403-000, SP, Brazil.
  6. Department of Biology, University of North Dakota, 10 Cornell Street, Grand Forks, ND 58202, USA.
  7. Laboratório de Bioquímica e Biologia Molecular, Superintendência de Controle de Endemias, São Paulo 01027-000, SP, Brazil.

PMID: 33494428 PMCID: PMC7912314 DOI: 10.3390/pathogens10020103

Abstract

Determining the prevalence and local transmission dynamics of parasitic organisms are necessary to understand the ability of parasites to persist in host populations and disperse across regions, yet local transmission dynamics, diversity, and distribution of haemosporidian parasites remain poorly understood. We studied the prevalence, diversity, and distributions of avian haemosporidian parasites of the genera

Keywords: Haemoproteus; Plasmodium; avian malaria; avian migration; parasite diversity; phylogenetic diversity; vector borne disease

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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