Common disorders of Amazons, Australian Parakeets, and African Grey Parrot

Seminars in Avian and Exotic Pet Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 125-130

  Levine, Bruce S ^a,b   Practice, Companion Animal ^c  

^a Bird/Exotic Animal Pract Orange Co   (United States)

^b Avian and Companion Animal   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

African grey; Amazon; Amazona; Avian; Grass parakeets; Husbandry; Medicine; Neophema; Psittacine; Rosellas

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; ANTINEMATODAL AGENT; BIOXAN; CELECOXIB; CLARITHROMYCIN; CORTICOSTEROID; ETHAMBUTOL; FEBENDAZOLE; FLUCONAZOLE; ITRACONAZOLE; LEVAMISOLE; LEVASOL; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PANACUR PASTE; PENTOBARBITAL; PRAVASTATIN; RIFAMPICIN; SPORONOX; TERBINAFINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AFRICA; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; AUSTRALIA; BIRD DISEASE; CHOANA ATRESIA; DERMATITIS; EPILEPSY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SERVICE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PARAKEET; PARROT; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; SPECIES; TUBERCULOSIS; VETERINARY MEDICINE; VIRUS INFECTION;

AMAZONA; ARATINGA; AVES; NEOPHEMA; PSITTACIDAE; PSITTACIFORMES; PSITTACUS ERITHACUS;

EID: 0042195802     PISSN: 1055937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/saep.2003.00020-3     Document Type: Article

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