TY - JOUR
KW - avipoxvirus
KW - flamingo
KW - cutaneous form
KW - shearwater poxvirus
AU - F Attig
AU - K von Dörnberg
AU - H Meyer
AU - G Zoeller
AU - W Baumgärtner
AU - P Wohlsein
AB - Avipoxvirus infection arises in birds in a cutaneous or a diphtheritic form affecting the mucous membranes of the oral cavity and upper respiratory tract. In a 4-week-old female Chilean flamingo an extensive multinodular exophytic ulcerated cutaneous proliferation at the tibiotarsal joint was surgically removed. Histologically, there was a severe, acute, diffuse erosive and ulcerative, heterophilic dermatitis with severe, epidermal hyperplasia and eosinophilic, cytoplasmic inclusion bodies within hydropic degenerated keratinocytes. Electron microscopy revealed multiple biconcave brick-shaped virus particles measuring approximately 250 x 320 nm. Molecular analysis resulted in the identification of a Shearwater poxvirus strain SWPV-2 that is closely related to canary poxvirus. This strain was isolated recently from a wedge-tailed shearwater. Wedge-tailed shearwater are seabirds resident in the tropical parts of the Indian and Pacific oceans. The cutaneous form of avipoxvirus infection in birds manifests usually as a papillomatous proliferation at the non-feathered skin resembling macroscopically neoplasia or excessive granulation tissue. This case report represents the first description of a Shearwater poxvirus infection in a Chilean flamingo.
BT - Berliner und Münchener Tierärztliche Wochenschrift
CY - Hannover
DA - 03/2020
DO - 10.2376/0005-9366-19029
LA - Englisch
N2 - Avipoxvirus infection arises in birds in a cutaneous or a diphtheritic form affecting the mucous membranes of the oral cavity and upper respiratory tract. In a 4-week-old female Chilean flamingo an extensive multinodular exophytic ulcerated cutaneous proliferation at the tibiotarsal joint was surgically removed. Histologically, there was a severe, acute, diffuse erosive and ulcerative, heterophilic dermatitis with severe, epidermal hyperplasia and eosinophilic, cytoplasmic inclusion bodies within hydropic degenerated keratinocytes. Electron microscopy revealed multiple biconcave brick-shaped virus particles measuring approximately 250 x 320 nm. Molecular analysis resulted in the identification of a Shearwater poxvirus strain SWPV-2 that is closely related to canary poxvirus. This strain was isolated recently from a wedge-tailed shearwater. Wedge-tailed shearwater are seabirds resident in the tropical parts of the Indian and Pacific oceans. The cutaneous form of avipoxvirus infection in birds manifests usually as a papillomatous proliferation at the non-feathered skin resembling macroscopically neoplasia or excessive granulation tissue. This case report represents the first description of a Shearwater poxvirus infection in a Chilean flamingo.
PB - Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG
PP - Hannover
PY - 2020
T1 - Shearwater poxvirus infection in a  flamingo in Germany
T2 - Berliner und Münchener Tierärztliche Wochenschrift
TI - Shearwater poxvirus infection in a  flamingo in Germany
TT - Sturmtaucherpockenvirusinfektion bei einem Flamingo  in Deutschland
VL - 133
SN - 0005-9366
ER -