| newcastle disease in a zoo affecting demoiselle cranes (anthropoides virgo), greater flamingos (phoenicopterus ruber) and a pied imperial pigeon (ducula bicolor). | newcastle disease virus could be isolated from demoiselle cranes (anthropoides virgo), greater flamingos (phoenicopterus ruber) and a pied imperial pigeon (ducula bicolor) in chicken embryo fibroblast (cef) cultures. all of these birds died without prominent symptoms and had no typical pathological lesions. identification and characterisation studies of the viruses were performed in cef cultures and embryos. serological cross reactions could be detected between ndv strain b1 and the new isolates ... | 1981 | 18770153 |
| neuroaxonal dystrophy in a flock of pied imperial pigeons (ducula bicolor). | five juvenile pied imperial pigeons (ducula bicolor) presented with neurological signs including torticollis, ataxia and poor flying ability. all were humanely destroyed and submitted for post-mortem examination. microscopically, the most significant findings were in the brain and spinal cord. spheroid formation was evident within the medulla, pons, diencephalon, cortical grey and subcortical white matter, spinal cord white and grey matter and the granular and molecular cell layers of the cerebe ... | 2017 | 28391972 |