Mortality in muscovy ducks (Cairina moschata) caused by Haemoproteus infection.
Haemoproteus infection was confirmed in white Pekin ducks (Anas platyrhynchos domesticus) following placement in a pond where severe mortality from a respiratory condition apparently caused by schizonts of Haemoproteus had occurred in muscovy ducks (Cairina moschata). Blood from one infected white Pekin duck was experimentally inoculated into five muscovy ducks; two of the five developed large numbers of schizonts in the endothelial cells and died. Illness did not occur in the white Pekin ducks.
D000818:Animals; D016782:Apicomplexa; D001715:Bird Diseases / Q000401:mortality* / Q000469:parasitology; D004372:Ducks / Q000469:parasitology; D009132:Muscles / Q000469:parasitology; D011528:Protozoan Infections / Q000401:mortality / Q000469:parasitology; D011529:Protozoan Infections, Animal; D013154:Spleen / Q000469:parasitology