High prevalence of avian hematozoan parasite infection in wild owls in Chungbuk province of Korea (mid-South Korea) |
Jang, Hye-Jin
(Veterinary Laboratory Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Chungbuk National University)
Na, Ki-Jeong (Veterinary Laboratory Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Chungbuk National University) Rhim, Haerin (Laboratory of Wildlife Medicine/Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, Chonbuk National University) Han, Jae-Ik (Laboratory of Wildlife Medicine/Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, Chonbuk National University) |
1 | Bensch S, Stjernman M, Hasselquist D, Ostman O, Hansson B, Westerdahl H, Pinheiro RT. 2000. Host specificity in avian blood parasites: a study of Plasmodium and Haemoproteus mitochondrial DNA amplified from birds. Proc R Soc Lond B 267: 1583-1589. DOI |
2 | Durrant KL, Beadell JS, Ishtiaq F, Graves GR, Olson SL, Gering E, Peirce M, Atkinson C, Milensky CM, Schmidt BK, Gebhard C, Fleischer RC. 2006. Avian malaria in South America: A comparison of temperate and tropical zones. Ornith Monogr 60: 98-111. DOI |
3 | Eldridge B, Edman J. 2000. Medical entomology: A textbook on public health and veterinary problems caused by arthropods. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, the Netherlands. |
4 | Fallon SM, Ricklefs RE, Swanson BL, Bermingham E. 2003. Detecting avian malaria: an improved polymerase chain reaction diagnostic. J Parasitol 89: 1044-1047. DOI |
5 | Friend M, Franson J. 1999. Field manual of wildlife diseases: General field procedures and diseases of birds. http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/publications/field_manual/ |
6 | Garnham PCC. 1966. Malaria parasites and other haemosporidia. Blackwell Scientific, Oxford, UK. |
7 | Ishtiaq F, Gering E, Rappole JH, Rahmani AR, Jhala YV, Dove CJ, Milensky C, Olson SL, Peirce MA, Fleischer RC. 2007. Prevalence and diversity of avian hematozoan parasites in asia: a regional survey. J Wildl Dis 43: 382-398. DOI |
8 | Knowles SC, Wood MJ, Alves R, Wilkin TA, Bensch S, Sheldon BC. 2010. Molecular epidemiology of malaria prevalence and parasitemia in a wild bird population. Mol Ecol 20: 1062-1076. |
9 | Lee WS, Koo TH, Park JY. 2000. A field guide to the birds of Korea. LG Evergreen Foundation, Seoul, South Korea. |
10 | Rogers DJ, Randolph SE. 2006. Climate change and vector-borne diseases. Adv Parasitol 62: 345-381. |
11 | Saino N, Moller AP, Bolzern AM. 1995. Testosterone effects on the immune system and parasite infestations in the barn swallow (Hirundo rustica): an experimental test of the immunocompetence hypothesis. Behav Ecol 6: 397-404. DOI |
12 | Valkiunas G. 2005. Avian Malaria Parasites and Other Haemosporidia. CRC, Boca Raton. |
13 | Wedekind C, Folstad I. 1994. Adaptive and non-adaptive immunosuppression by sex hormones. Am Nat 143: 936-938. DOI |
14 | Beadell JS, Fleischer RC. 2005. A restriction enzyme-based assay to distinguish between avian hemosporidians. J Parasitol 91: 683-685. DOI |
15 | Bennett GF, Cameron M. 1974. Seasonal prevalence of avian hematozoa in passeriform birds of Atlantic Canada. Can J Zool 52: 1259-1264. DOI |
16 | Atkinson CT, Woods KL, Dusek RJ, Sileo LS, Io WM. 1995. Wildlife disease and conservation in Hawaii: Pathogenicity of avian malaria (Plasmodium relictum) in experimentally infected iiwi (Vestiaria coccinea). Parasitology 111: S59-69. DOI |