INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Chlamydiosis: Zoonotic Disease
Chlamydia psittaci
Transmission: Elementary bodies in feather dust and dried feces
Stability: several weeks incubation: > 42days
Clinical signs: yellowish-greenish droppings, dyspnoea, conjunctivitis, hepatomegaly, enlarged spleen
Diagnosis: Serology, ELISA
Treatment: Tetracyclines, Enrofloxacin
Mycobacterium sp.
M. avium, M. intracellulare
Transmission: contaminated feces. stability: several weeks
Clinical signs: atypical
Diagnosis: acid fast rods, Serology treatment: none
POX
Avipox
Transmission: latent infected birds and biting arthropods
Clinical signs: cutaneus-, diphtheroid-, septicemic-, tumor-form
Diagnosis: Bollinger bodies in biopsies, culture
Treatment: symptomatic
Herpes
Pacheco's disease virus
Transmission: latent infected birds
Clinical signs: peracute-acute disease--hepatomegaly
Diagnosis: Intranuclear inclusion bodies, ELISA, IF
Treatment: symptomatic, Acyclovir 80mg/kg PO
Psittacine Beak and Feather Disease
Circoviridae
Transmission: feather dust, feces
Clinical signs: feather changes, beak lesions
Diagnosis: Inclusion bodies, PCR
Treatment: none
Neuropathic Gastric Dilatation
Paramyxo?
Transmission:?
Clinical signs: weight loss, gastric enlargement, vomiting, undigested food in the droppings
Diagnosis: loss of neural cells in the myenteric plexus, round cell infiltrates
Treatment:?
NON INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Malnutrition
Different clinical conditions are associated with malnutrition: Obesity, low body weight, poor growth, polyphagia, polydipsia/polyuria, digestive disorders, respiratory disorders, plumage abnormalities, skin changes, neurological signs
Hypoparathyroidism in African Grey Parrots
Clinical signs: tremors
Diagnosis: Ca<1,6mmol/l
Treatment: Ca injections, change of nutrition
Aspergillosis
Aspergillus sp.
Transmission: not from bird to bird
Clinical signs: dyspnoea
Diagnosis: culture, radiology, endoscopy
Treatment: Itraconazole, nebulisation, symptomatic