Mojtaba Khosravi, Shohreh Alian Samakkhah, Rahem Khoshbakht, Kimia Sarraf Mamouri
Avian polyomavirus (APV) infection causes various health problems in psittacine species, including death. The present study was conducted to investigate the prevalence of APV among psittacine birds in Iran. We also aimed to evaluate the impact of age, sex, species, season, and origin of the birds on the prevalence of APV. This study investigated the presence of APV among 1050 individual birds from 7 psittacine species over a 1-year period in Iran, namely, green-cheeked parakeets ( Pyrrhura molinae ), rosy-faced lovebirds ( Agapornis roseicollis ), monk parakeets ( Myiopsitta monachus ), sun conures ( Aratinga solstitialis ), Senegal parrots ( Poicephalus senegalus ), cockatiels ( Nymphicus hollandicus ), and grey parrots ( Psittacus erithacus )...
April 2024: Journal of Avian Medicine and Surgery