| epizootiologic studies of avian vacuolar myelinopathy in waterbirds. | epizootic avian vacuolar myelinopathy (avm) was first recognized as a neurologic disease in bald eagles (haliaeetus leucocephalus) and american coots (fulica americana) in arkansas, usa in 1994 and 1996, respectively, but attempts to identify the etiology of the disease have been unsuccessful to date. between 1998 and 2001, wing clipped sentinel birds (wild american coots and game farm mallards [anas platyrhynchos]) were released at lake surf, north carolina, a lake with recurrent outbreaks of a ... | 2002 | 12528432 |
| avian vacuolar myelinopathy linked to exotic aquatic plants and a novel cyanobacterial species. | invasions of exotic species have created environmental havoc through competition and displacement of native plants and animals. the introduction of hydrilla (hydrilla verticillata) into the united states in the 1960s has been detrimental to navigation, power generation, water intake, and water quality (mccann et al., 1996). our field surveys and feeding studies have now implicated exotic hydrilla and associated epiphytic cyanobacterial species as a link to avian vacuolar myelinopathy (avm), an e ... | 2005 | 15892059 |