Table 1 Susceptibility of passerine birds to Plasmodium homocircumflexum (lineage pCOLL4) infection after experimental exposure
From: Patterns of Plasmodium homocircumflexum virulence in experimentally infected passerine birds
| Bird species, group and infection dose | No. exposed (no. infected) | No. died | Prepatent period (days) | Maximum parasitemiaa | Minimum hematocrit valuea | Maximum weight, ga | No. of individuals with phanerozoites located in | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brain | Heart | Liver | Lung | Spleen | Kidney | Muscle | |||||||
| Loxia curvirostra | |||||||||||||
| Experimental (3 × 106)b | 8 (8) | 7 | 4–8 | 3.3–23.3 (10) | 12.5–33.3 (23.8) | 37.4–45.4 (42.5) | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| Control | 8 (0) | 0 | – | – | 27.6–50 (43.7) | 39.2–48.8 (43.9) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sturnus vulgaris | |||||||||||||
| Experimental (9.5 × 105)b | 8 (8) | 3 | 4–12 | 0.1–30 (13) | 18.6–33.3 (28.15) | 65.5–91.1 (80.2) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Control | 8 (0) | 1 | – | – | 31.4–37 (34.2) | 71.8–83.8 (77.4) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Passer domesticus | |||||||||||||
| Experimental (8 × 105)b | 8 (8) | 5 | 5 | 0.1–41.4 (9.4) | 11.4–40 (28.1) | 24.5–30.2 (28.4) | 4 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 4 |
| Control | 8 (0) | 2 | – | – | 28.6–45.5 (37.5) | 26.8–31 (28.75) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Fringilla coelebs | |||||||||||||
| Experimental (5 × 105)b | 8 (8) | 3 | 5 | 0.1–40.4 (11.5) | 21–42 (31) | 20.7–23.7 (22.) | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| Control | 8 (0) | 1 | – | – | 31–47.8 (40.3) | 20.6–24.9 (23.1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
