Abstract
At the end of the summer of 2016, unusually high levels of mortality were detected in Passeriformes and Strigiformes in Flanders, Belgium, mainly in Eurasian Blackbirds ( Turdus merula). A passive surveillance program demonstrated a widespread Usutu virus outbreak and revealed a coinfection with Plasmodium in 99% of the dead passerine birds that were necropsied.
Publication types
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Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
MeSH terms
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Animals
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Bird Diseases / epidemiology
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Bird Diseases / microbiology*
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Bird Diseases / parasitology
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Coinfection / veterinary*
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Flavivirus / isolation & purification*
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Flavivirus Infections / complications
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Flavivirus Infections / epidemiology
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Flavivirus Infections / veterinary
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Flavivirus Infections / virology
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Malaria / complications
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Malaria / parasitology
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Malaria / veterinary
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Passeriformes*
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Plasmodium / isolation & purification*