Psittacine Beak and Feather Disease in Three Captive Sulphur-Crested Cockatoos (Cacatua galerita) in Thailand

Wijit KIATIPATTANASAKUL-BANLUNARA; Rachod TANTILEARTCHAROEN; Kei-ichi KATAYAMA; Kazuhiko SUZUKI; Thawat LEKDUMROGSAK; Hiroyuki NAKAYAMA; Kunio DOI

doi:10.1292/jvms.64.527

Psittacine Beak and Feather Disease in Three Captive Sulphur-Crested Cockatoos (Cacatua galerita) in Thailand

Wijit KIATIPATTANASAKUL-BANLUNARA, Rachod TANTILEARTCHAROEN, Kei-ichi KATAYAMA, Kazuhiko SUZUKI, Thawat LEKDUMROGSAK, Hiroyuki NAKAYAMA, Kunio DOI

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Keywords: circovirus, cockatoo, psittacine beak and feather disease (PBFD)

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2002 Volume 64 Issue 6 Pages 527-529

DOI https://doi.org/10.1292/jvms.64.527

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Three sulphur-crested cockatoos (Cacatua galerita) were diagnosed as psittacine beak and feather disease (PBFD). Histopathology of the feather pulp and follicles showed intracytoplasmic botryoid clusters or granular inclusion bodies in epithelial cells and macrophages. Electron microscopy revealed multiple cytoplasmic clusters of electron dense viral particles corresponding to the inclusions. PBFD virus (circovirus) DNA-specific product was detected from formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded feathers by nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method.

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