Avipoxvirus infection in two captive Japanese cormorants            (&lt;i&gt;Phalacrocorax capillatus&lt;/i&gt;)

Kurihara, Takumi; Hirata, Akihiro; Yamaguchi, Tsuyoshi; Okada, Harue; Kameda, M.; Sakai, Hiroki; Haridy, Mohie; Yanai, Tokuma

doi:10.1292/jvms.19-0406

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“…Avian pox still represents an issue for poultry health, even though vaccinations are usually performed to protect the breeding. Large outbreaks or small disease events involving few animals were often reported worldwide in domestic [8,18], captive [19][20][21], and wild birds [12,22].…”

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Molecular Detection of Avipoxvirus in Wild Birds in Central Italy

Bertelloni

Ceccherelli

Cossato

et al. 2022

Animals

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Avipoxviruses (APVs) are important pathogens of both domestic and wild birds. The associated disease is characterized by skin proliferative lesions in the cutaneous form or by lesions of the first digestive and respiratory tracts in the diphtheritic form. Previous studies investigated these infections in symptomatic wild birds worldwide, including Italy, but data about the circulation of APVs in healthy avian wildlife are not available. The present study tested spleen samples from 300 wild birds without typical lesions to detect Avipoxvirus DNA. Overall, 43.33% of the samples scored positive. Aquatic birds were more frequently infected (55.42%) than other animals (26.40%), and in Anseriformes, high positivity was found (52.87%). The obtained results suggest that wild birds could be asymptomatic carriers of Avipoxviruses, opening new possible epidemiological scenarios.

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