1. Hematozoa in two populations of the threatened red-billed chough in Spain.
- Author
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Blanco G, Merino S, Tella JL, Fargallo JA, and Gajón A
- Subjects
- Animals, Babesia isolation & purification, Babesiosis epidemiology, Birds, Erythrocytes parasitology, Female, Malaria, Avian epidemiology, Male, Parasitemia epidemiology, Plasmodium isolation & purification, Prevalence, Seasons, Spain epidemiology, Bird Diseases epidemiology, Parasitemia veterinary
- Abstract
The prevalence of hematozoa in two populations of red-billed choughs (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax) was sampled in 1992 and 1994 in Spain. Two blood parasites infected red-billed choughs. A species of Plasmodium, possibly Plasmodium relictum, and the piroplasm Babesia frugilegica, are described for the first time from this host. Low prevalence (1/178, < 1%) of hematozoa in these populations, was evidence for a lack of effects of blood parasites on the life history and conservation of this threatened species in at least the two populations studied.
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- 1997
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