What is your diagnosis? Blood smear from an injured red-tailed hawk

Veterinary Clinical Pathology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 247-252

  Johns, Jennifer L ^a   Luff, Jennifer A ^a   Shooshtari, Mahrokh P ^a   Zehnder, Ashley M ^a   Borjesson, Dori L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteremia; Chlamydia; Chlamydophila psittaci; Heterophil inclusions; Psittacosis; Red tailed hawk

Indexed keywords

AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BUTEO JAMAICENSIS; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDOPHILA; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; EHRLICHIA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIRD DISEASE; BLOOD; CASE REPORT; CHLAMYDOPHILA INFECTION; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; FATALITY; HAWK; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; CHLAMYDOPHILA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; FATAL OUTCOME; HAWKS;

EID: 69449089336     PISSN: 02756382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-165X.2008.00091.x     Document Type: Article

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