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  <dc:contributor>Beth A. Christensen</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Tonie E. Rocke</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>Marc D. Castle</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>1988</dc:date>
  <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;One hundred twenty-three of 300 blood samples (41%) taken from Rio Grande wild turkeys (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Meleagris gallopavo intermedia&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;) from three locations in southern Texas (Welder Wildlife Refuge, Chaparrosa Ranch, and Campo Alegre Ranch) and subinoculated into domestic broad-breasted white turkey poults were positive for a&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Plasmodium&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Novyella&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;) sp. Analysis of blood films from 350 turkeys revealed&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Haemoproteus meleagridis&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;in 76% of the birds. A significantly greater mean parasite intensity was observed in birds from Welder Wildlife Refuge. Birds from the Campo Alegre Ranch exhibited a significantly higher prevalence of&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;H. meleagridis&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;than birds from Chaparrosa. The&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Plasmodium&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;sp. was infective for canaries (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Serinus canaria&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;), bobwhites (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Colinus virginianus&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;), and ring-necked pheasants (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Phasianus colchicus&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;), but would not produce infection in white leghorn chickens (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Gallus gallus&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;) or Coturnix quail (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Coturnix coturnix&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;). Attempts to infect&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Culex tarsalis&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;C. pipiens pipiens&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;were unsuccessful. Asexual erythrocytic synchrony was not observed when blood-induced infections were monitored in two domestic turkey poults every 4 hr for 72 hr. Exoerythrocytic stages were not found upon examination of impression smears and tissue samples taken from brain, liver, spleen, kidney, lung, and bone marrow. The&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Plasmodium&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;sp. is most similar morphologically to three species in the subgenus&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Novyella&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;P. hexamerium&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;P. vaughani&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;, and&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;P. kempi&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;. The most striking similarities are to&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;P. hexamerium&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;, and involve mean merozoite number, erythrocytic schizont location, and vertebrate host susceptibility. It differs from&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;P. vaughani&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;in being able to infect turkeys and in type of parasitized erythrocytes. Differences to&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;P. kempi&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;include mean merozoite number, and ability to infect pheasants, and its inability to develop in&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;C. pipiens&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;C. tarsalis&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>10.7589/0090-3558-24.1.88</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>Wildlife Disease Association</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>Hematozoan parasites of Rio Grande wild turkeys from southern Texas (USA)</dc:title>
  <dc:type>article</dc:type>
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