Mixed infection with reovirus and chlamydophila in a flock of budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus)

Journal of Avian Medicine and Surgery

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 316-321

  Perpiñán, David ^a,d   Garner, Michael M ^b   Wellehan, James F X ^c   Armstrong, Douglas L ^a  

^a Henry Doorly Zoo   (United States)

^b NORTHWEST ZOOPATH   (United States)

^c University of Florida   (United States)

^d NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

avian; budgerigar; chlamydiosis; Chlamydophila psittaci; Melopsittacus undulatus; reovirus

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; DOXYCYCLINE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; AVIAN ORTHOREOVIRUS; BIRD DISEASE; CHLAMYDOPHILA; CHLAMYDOPHILA INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PARAKEET; REOVIRUS INFECTION; UNITED STATES; VIROLOGY; ZOO ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BIRD DISEASES; CHLAMYDOPHILA; CHLAMYDOPHILA INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DOXYCYCLINE; MELOPSITTACUS; NEBRASKA; ORTHOREOVIRUS, AVIAN; REOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS;

AVES; CHLAMYDOPHILA; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; COTURNIX CHINENSIS; MELOPSITTACUS; MELOPSITTACUS UNDULATUS; NYMPHICUS HOLLANDICUS; ORTHOREOVIRUS; PHASIANIDAE; PSITTACUS ERITHACUS;

EID: 78650885072     PISSN: 10826742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1647/2009-042.1     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Flammer K, Trogdon MM, Papich M. Assessment of plasma concentrations of doxycycline in budgerigars fed medicated seed or water. J Am Vet Med Assoc. 2003;223:993-998.
2. Wellehan JFX, Childress AL, Marschang RE, et al. Consensus nested PCR amplification and sequencing of diverse reptilian, avian, and mammalian orthoreoviruses. Vet Microbiol. 2009;133: 34-42.
3. van den Brand JMA, Manvell R, Paul G, et al. Reovirus infections associated with high mortality in psittaciformes in The Netherlands. Avian Pathol. 2007;36:293-299.
4. Wilson RB, Holscher M, Hodges JR, Thomas S. Necrotizing hepatitis associated with a reo-like virus infection in a parrot. Avian Dis. 1985;29: 568-571.
5. Graham DL. Characterization of a reo-like virus and its isolation from and pathogenicity for parrots. Avian Dis. 1987;31:411-419.
6. Sánchez-Cordón PJ, Hervá s J, Chacón de Lara F, et al. Reovirus infection in psittacine birds (Psittacus erithacus): morphologic and immunohistochemical study. Avian Dis. 2002;46:485-492.
7. Conzo G, Magnino S, Sironi G, et al. Reovirus infection in two species of Psittaciformes recently imported into Italy. Avian Pathol. 2001;30:43-47.
8. Pennycott T. Mortality in budgerigars in Scotland: pathological findings. Vet Rec. 2004;154:538-539.
9. Manvell R, Gough D, Major N, Fouchier RA. Mortality in budgerigars associated with a reovirus- like agent. Vet Rec. 2004;154:539-540.
10. Ni Y, Kemp MC. A comparative study of avian reovirus pathogenicity: virus spread and replication and induction of lesions. Avian Dis. 1995;39: 554-566.
11. Montgomery RD, Villegas P, Dawe DL, Brown J. Effect of avian reoviruses on lymphoid organ weights and antibody response in chickens. Avian Dis. 1985;29:552-560.
12. Garner MM, Wellehan JFX, Pearson M. Pathology and molecular characterization of two novel atadenoviruses in colubrid snakes. J Herpetol Med Surg. 2008;18:86-94.
13. Brown DL, Desai KK, Vakili BA, et al. Clinical and biochemical results of the metalloproteinase inhibition with subantimicrobial dose of doxycycline to prevent acute coronary syndromes (MIDAS) pilot trial. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2004;24:733-738.
14. Woo PCY, Tsoi H-W, Wong L-P, et al. Antibiotics modulate vaccine-induced humoral immune response. Clin Diagn Lab Immunol. 1999;6:832-837.