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Figure 1. Lesions and antigen distribution of Bagaza virus (BAGV) and Plasmodium spp. in partridges. A) Liver of greenish-black color presenting hepatomegaly. B) Pale kidneys with nephromegaly. C) Paleness of pectoral muscles. D) Perivascular and parenchymal infiltrate of lymphoplasmacytic and histiocytic inflammatory cells in liver (light grey arrows), associated to abundant phanerozoites inside hepatic cells and sinusoids (inset, light grey arrowheads). E) Severe necrosis and lymphoplasmacytic and histiocytic infiltrates in renal tubules and glomeruli (*). F) Pectoral muscle presenting necrotic foci along with mononuclear and polymorphonuclear infiltrated cells (*) and degeneration of muscular fibers (black arrows). G) Kupffer cells and hepatocytes in the liver positive to BAGV by immunohistochemistry (black arrowheads). H) Macrophages, lymphocytes and tubular epithelial cells inside a necrotic focus in the kidney showing BAGV immunolabeling (black arrowheads). I) Immunopositive phanerozoites of Plasmodium spp. in necrotic and inflammatory cells present in pectoral muscle (gray arrowheads).
Figure 2 . Phylogenetic tree based on NS5 fragment sequences of Bagaza virus identified in red-legged partridges in the present study (marked with circles) compared with other related sequences from different countries.
Figure 1.