RESUMO
An outbreak of mycobacteriosis was detected in an aviary containing Gouldian finches (Erythrura gouldiae) and golden shouldered parrots (Psephotus chrysopterygius). Affected birds developed granulomatous lesions, usually of the liver and intestine. Mycobacterium peregrinum, a species of the Mycobacterium fortuitum group, was cultured on pooled samples of intestinal tract from 31 euthanized finches. These rapid-growing mycobacteria are saprophytic organisms that are generally not associated with clinical disease in immunocomponenet hosts. This is the first report of mycobacteriosis in finches implicating M peregrinum as a causative agent.
Assuntos
Doenças das Aves/epidemiologia , Surtos de Doenças/veterinária , Tentilhões/microbiologia , Infecções por Mycobacterium/veterinária , Mycobacterium/isolamento & purificação , Animais , Animais de Zoológico/microbiologia , Doenças das Aves/patologia , Evolução Fatal , Infecções por Mycobacterium/epidemiologia , Infecções por Mycobacterium/patologia , Austrália Ocidental/epidemiologiaRESUMO
A splendid tree frog (Pelodryas splendida) presented with subcutaneous edema extending along its dorsum from head to vent, which resolved with improvement of ambient temperature and humidity conditions in its enclosure. Four months later, this same frog presented in a moribund state with intracoelomic fluid accumulation. An intestinal adenocarcinoma, a rarely reported neoplasm in amphibians, was diagnosed post mortem. Neoplasia is one of a number of causes of edema syndrome, which is a nonspecific response to disease and debility in anurans.
