MORTALITY IN MUSCOVY DUCKS (Cairina moschata) CAUSED BY Haemoproteus INFECTION

1 January 1980

journal article
research article
Published by Wildlife Disease Association in Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Vol. 16 (1) , 39-44
https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-16.1.39

Abstract

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 occurred in muscovy ducks (C. moschata). Blood from one infected white Pekin duck was experimentally inoculated into 5 muscovy ducks; 2 of the 5 developed large numbers of schizonts in the endothelial cells and died. Illness did not occur in the white Pekin ducks.

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