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JOURNAL OF ZOO AND WILDLIFE MEDICINE
卷 34, 期 3, 页码 250-255出版社
AMER ASSOC ZOO VETERINARIANS
DOI: 10.1638/02-070
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avian malaria; Plasmodium juxtanucleare; black-footed penguin; Spheniscus demersus; polymerase chain reaction
Five black-footed penguins (Spheniscus demersus) admitted to the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds, in Cape Town, South Africa, died from malaria infection. Evidence for malaria as the cause of death included antemortem clinical signs, parasitemia. splenomegaly, pulmonary edema, and the presence of histologically visible schizonts in the reticuloendothelial system. A portion of the malarial small subunit ribosomal ribonucleic acid gene was detected by polymerase chain reaction from postmortem blood samples from all the birds. A species-specific variable region of this gene was compared with the same region on genes from other known avian malarial organisms, establishing that Plasmodium juxtanucleare was involved.
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