VMD 512: Zoo/Wild Animal Breeding, Management, Nutrition and Health Care (1+1)

PLASMODIUM SPECIES IN BUDGERIGARS

• Among the haemosporids, plasmodium , haemoproteus and Leucocytozoon are commonly noticed in wild avifauna; Biting flies serve as vectors and it is the commonly noticed Mosquitoes are often involved in the transmission of malarial disease in birds.
• On biting by these mosquitoes, the infective stages namely the sporozoites enter the tissues and blood of a new host.