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E u r o S c i C o n J o i n t E v e n t s o n
Plant Science, Tissue Engineering
and Parasitology
December 03-04 , 2018
Amsterdam, Nether l ands
International Journal of Applied Science - Research and Review
ISSN: 2394-9988
Plant Science | Tissue Engineering | Parasitology 2018
A
lthough much is known about malaria, its transmission, its genomics, and drug interactions, relatively little is known about
how rapid ecological changes affect the transmission of the disease in real time, particularly in co-infection scenarios with
other parasitic infections. Given the socioeconomic patterns of malaria infection and other diseases in humans, the use of birds
for the study of infectious diseases is advantageous because they represent natural populations that can be studied in both
human-impacted environments and in pristine unaltered forests. In order to create a link between avian blood borne parasitic
co-infections and deforestation, bird sampling was conducted in intact and degraded forest in real time by mist netting. We
analyzed the prevalence variation and co-infections of four avian blood-borne parasite genera: Plasmodium spp,
Haemoproteus
spp,
Leucocytozoon
spp and
Trypanosoma
spp and the superfamily Filarioidea in all recaptured birds following deforestation
using both microscopy and PCR techniques. After two years of sampling, a total of 1954 birds were caught belonging to 26
families and 67 species, 156 of which were recaptures. The most abundant birds recaptured were
Bleda notatus
(20.51%),
Alethe
castanea
(18.59%) and S
tiphrornis erythrothorax
(8.97%). Only the
Plasmodium
genus prevalence varied significantly in the intact
forest and it was highest in the fire-crested alethe (
Alethe castanea
). In fire-crested alethe and yellow-whiskered greenbul (
Eurillas
latirostris)
microfilariae prevalence positively correlated with Trypanosoma prevalence. A negative microfilariae correlation with
Haemoproteus
prevalence and no correlation with Plasmodium prevalence were observed. Three morpho Trypanosoma species
were reported (T
. everetti, T. anguiformis, and T. naviformis
). Trypanosoma everetti predominated of all Trypanosoma spp. and
it was present in three avian hosts; olive sunbird (
Cyanomitra olivacea)
, yellow-whiskered greenbul and fire-crested alethe. The
results provide insight into the impacts of deforestation on co-infection and have implications for the study of infectious diseases
in rapidly changing environments.
malangefido@gmail.comEffect of deforestation on avian parasiticco-
infections in recaptured birds of the Talangaye
rainforest of Cameroon
Malange N Fedo
1
, Tchoumbou Melanie
2
, Tabe Claire
1
,
Fru-Cho Jerome
1
, Anong Damian
1
and Ravinder N M Sehgal
3
1
University of Buea, Cameroon
2
University of Dschang, Cameroon
3
San Francisco State University, USA
Int J Appl Sci Res Rev 2018, Volume: 5
DOI: 10.21767/2394-9988-C2-006