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severe leukopenia and liver necrosis in young african grey parrots (psittacus erithacus erithacus) infected with psittacine circovirus.this paper describes the signs, clinical pathology, and postmortem findings in 14 young african grey parrots (psittacus erithacus erithacus) that were naturally infected with psittacine beak and feather disease (pbfd) virus (psittacine circovirus). all but two of the parrots had severe leukopenia at clinical presentation. two other parrots also had severe anemia. all birds died within 3 wk after presentation. postmortem examination documented liver necrosis in 11 of 14 birds and secondary bacter ...200010879931
molecular identification and successful treatment of chlamydophila psittaci (genotype b) in a clinically affected congo african grey parrot (psittacus erithacus erithacus).avian chlamydiosis is caused by chlamydiophila psittaci with the highest infection rate in parrots (psittacidae) and pigeons (columbiformes). a two-year-old congo african grey parrot was examined since the bird had shown clinical signs of anorexia, depression, diarrhea, and mild dyspnea and based on biochemical and hemathological analysis the bird was diagnosed as having anemia, leukocytosis, heterophilia, lymphopenia and monocytosis. with regards to clinical and paraclinical findings, the case ...201628224015
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