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Dactylaria gallopava encephalitis in two grey-winged trumpeters (Psophia crepitans)
W B Karesh1, R Russell, D Gribble
1Woodland Park Zoological Gardens, Seattle, Washington 98103.
Avian Diseases
|July 1, 1987
Abstract:
Encephalitis caused by Dactylaria gallopava is reported in two 17-to-18-day-old grey-winged trumpeters (Psophia crepitans). One of the chicks was housed in a tropical exhibit, and the other was in an adjacent room. Fir bark litter and aerosol infection were the suspected source and route of infection. The occurrence of this disease in a species other than the domestic chicken and turkey suggests the presence of a broader avian population at risk than previously indicated. Adult trumpeters and both young and old passerines housed in the same exhibit were not affected.