| pacheco's disease in a hungarian zoo bird population: a case report. | an epizootic of pacheco's disease is reported from a zoo bird population. the infection was introduced by wild-captured patagonian conures (cyanoliseus patagonus) despite 61 days of quarantine. the disease affected several parrot species and, interestingly, three out of seven bearded barbets (lybius dubius). the mortality rate was 30.93%. autopsy revealed abdominal hyperaemia with liver haemorrhages and, in less rapid cases, yellowish discoloration and fragility of the liver. death was caused by ... | 2007 | 17555286 |
| lymphoplasmacytic myenteric, subepicardial, and pulmonary ganglioneuritis in four nonpsittacine birds. | a disease condition with clinical and pathologic findings compatible with psittacine proventricular dilatation disease was diagnosed in a canary (serinus canaria), a greenfinch (carduelis chloris), a long-wattled umbrellabird (cephalopterus penduliger), and a bearded barbet (lybius dubius). the canary and the greenfinch were kept as pets by different owners, whereas the bearded barbet and the long-wattled umbrellabird were kept in separate mixed species enclosures at the barcelona zoo. clinical ... | 2007 | 18087938 |