Volume 23, Number 1—January 2017
Letter
Avian Pox in Native Captive Psittacines, Brazil, 2015
Felipe C.B. Esteves, Sandra Y. Marín, Maurício Resende, Aila S.G. Silva, Hannah L.G. Coelho, Mayara B. Barbosa, Natália S. D’Aparecida, José S. de Resende, Ana C.D. Torres, and Nelson R.S. Martins
Table
Avipoxvirus detection by PCR according to clinical status and psittacine species, Brazil, 2015
| Psittacine species | Clinical status |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PCR positive |
PCR negative |
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| Normal | Cutaneous lesions | Normal | Cutaneous lesions | ||
| Amazona aestiva (blue-fronted parrot) | 4 | – | – | – | |
| Amazona brasiliensis (red-tailed Amazon) | – | 1 | 4 | 1 | |
| Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus (hyacinthine macaw) | – | 2 | 4 | – | |
| Ara chloropterus (green-winged macaw) | – | – | 2 | – | |
| Ara macao (scarlet macaw) | – | 2 | 1 | – | |
| Ara ararauna (blue and yellow macaw) | – | – | 14 | – | |
| Deroptyus accipitrinus (red-fan parrot) | – | 1 | 9 | 2 | |
| Guaruba guarouba (golden conure) | – | 9 | 15 | 1 | |
| Pionites leucogaster (white-bellied caique) | – | 4 | 12 | – | |
| Pionus fuscus (dusky parrot) |
– |
3 |
2 |
– |
|
| Total | 4 | 23 | 63 | 4 | |
| Ratio, no. birds/no. tested (%) | 4/94 (4.2) | 23/94 (24.4) | 63/94 (67.0) | 4/94 (4.2) | |
*Values are no. birds except as indicated. –, not found.
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