AVIAN POX INFECTION, ASPERGILLOSIS AND RENAL TREMATODIASIS IN A ROYAL TERN - Concepedia

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AVIAN POX INFECTION, ASPERGILLOSIS AND RENAL TREMATODIASIS IN A ROYAL TERN

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1980

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ER Jacobson, B Raphael, Hai T. Nguyen, Ellis C. Greiner, Thelma Lee Gross

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Parasitic DiseaseZoonotic DiseasePathogenesisPathologyClinical MycologyPoxvirus InfectionMicrobiologyMedicineRoyal TernParasitologyAvian Pox InfectionThalasseus Maximus

Abstract

Poxvirus infection and aspergillosis were diagnosed in a Royal tern (Thalasseus maximus) based on gross and microscopic lesions. This represents the first known report of avian pox in a tern. Renal trematodiasis, caused by a species of Renicola also is described.