کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
2397455 1101908 2008 6 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Case Report: An Avian Pox Outbreak in Captive Psittacine Birds in Chile
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علوم کشاورزی و بیولوژیک علوم دامی و جانورشناسی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Case Report: An Avian Pox Outbreak in Captive Psittacine Birds in Chile
چکیده انگلیسی

An outbreak of avian pox in a psittacine bird colony was recognized in Chile. Although 12 psittacine birds of different genera were in contiguous cages within the same building, clinical signs and mortality were restricted to the Agapornis, Neophema, Polytelis, and Platycercus genera. Fifty of 188 psittacine birds were affected with clinical signs; the disease was usually self-limiting, but 11 birds died. In the affected birds, cutaneous lesions were usually observed on the featherless parts of the face and legs. A strain of avian poxvirus was isolated from cutaneous lesions harvested from Polytelis swainsonii by inoculation onto the chorioallantoic membrane of chicken embryos. Intracytoplasmatic inclusion bodies were visualized by light microscopy in the infected chorioallantoic membranes and also in infected psittacine tissues. Diagnosis of this pox outbreak was made by clinical signs, epidemiology, histopathology, virus isolation, and serological identification. Birds that exhibited clinical signs were treated. As far as we know, this is the first report of avian pox in Polytelis swainsonii and P. alexandrae.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Exotic Pet Medicine - Volume 17, Issue 3, July 2008, Pages 210–215
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