• Title/Summary/Keyword: Toco Toucan

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Hepatic Hemochromatosis in a Toco Toucan (Ramphastos toco) (토코투칸에서 발생한 간 혈색소침착증(Hemochromatosis))

  • Kim, Yong-Ahn;Lee, Bo-Ram;Kim, Yang-Beom;Jeon, Jae-Kyoung;Oh, Suk-Hun;Youn, Soong-Hee;Kwon, Soo-Whan;Kim, Dae-Yong
    • Journal of Veterinary Clinics
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.329-331
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    • 2013
  • An 11-year-old female toco toucan (Ramphastos toco) kept in outdoor exhibit was presented with sudden onset of anorexia and hypodynamia. After routine physical examination, the patient was treated. However, the bird died that evening. Necropsy revealed moderate swelling of the liver with yellowish discoloration. Based on the gross pathology as well as histologic evidence of iron pigments accumulation throughout the hepatocytes, hepatic hemochromatosis was diagnosed.

Characterization of Newcastle disease virus obtained from toco toucan

  • Li, Jiaxin;Ling, Mengmeng;Sun, Yixue;Di, Haiyang;Cong, Yulin;Yu, Haiying;Cong, Yanlong
    • Journal of Veterinary Science
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.19.1-19.10
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    • 2020
  • Given that the current Newcastle disease virus (NDV) infection in wild birds poses the threat to poultry, surveillance of Newcastle disease in captive wild birds was carried out in Jilin, China in 2018. Here, an NDV strain obtained from toco toucan was firstly characterized. The results showed that the F gene of the NDV isolate Toucan/China/3/2018 is classified as genotype II in class II. Sequence analysis of the F0 cleavage site was 113RQGR/L117, which supports the result of the intracerebral pathogenicity index assay indicating classification of the isolate as low-pathogenicity. Experimental infection demonstrated that Toucan/China/3/2018 can effectively replicate and transmit among chickens. To our knowledge, this is the first report on genetically and pathogenically characterizing NDV strain isolated from toucan, which enriches the epidemiological information of NDV in wild birds.