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Aspergillosis in a Blue-fronted Amazon (Amazona aestiva)  

Kwon Hyo-jung (서울대학교 수의과대학 병리학교실)
Park Mi-sun (서울대학교 수의과대학 병리학교실)
Kim Dae-yong (서울대학교 수의과대학 병리학교실)
Hwang Cheol-yong (서울대학교 수의과대학 내과학교실)
Shin Nam-shik (서울대학교 수의과대학 야생동물의학교실)
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Journal of Veterinary Clinics / v.21, no.4, 2004 , pp. 413-415 More about this Journal
Abstract
A male Blue-fronted amazon parrot suddenly died after having a history of depression, anorexia and emaciation. At necropsy, numerous well-demarcated yellow to white firm nodules were scattered throughout the left caudal lung lobes and adjacent air sac. Histologically, the wall of air sac was significantly thickened due to necrosis and infiltration of large numbers of fungi and degenerated heterophils. Multifocal necrotizing granulomatous lesions with numerous fungal hypae as well as vasculitis and thrombosis were found in tl1e lung. The fungi had conidiophore, vesicle, phialides and conidia which were characteristic of Aspergillus sp. This is tl1e first report of mycotic air sacculitis and pneumonitis caused by Aspergillus in a parrot in Korea.
Keywords
Blue-fronted Amazon; parrot; aspergillosis; air sacculitis;
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