Book Review: Pathology of Pet and Aviary Birds

Book Review: Understanding Human Anatomy and Pathology

Zoonoses in pet birds: review and perspectives

Pet birds are a not-so-well known veterinarian's clientship fraction. Bought individually or in couples, as families often do (which is a lucrative business for pet shops or local breeders) or traded (sometimes illegally) for their very high genetic or exotic value, these birds, commonly canaries, parakeets or parrots, are regularly sold at high prices. These animals, however, are potential car...

Book Review: Toxicologic Pathology, Nonclinical Safety Assessment

Book Review: Toxicologic Pathology, Nonclinical Safety Assessment, Edited by Sahota PS, Popp JA, Hardisty JF, and Gopinath C, CRC Press, 1,015 pages, 158 color illustrations, 43 tables, 2013. Hardback version (ISBN 9781-4398-7210-9; $259.95) and ebook version (ISBN 978-14398-7212-3; $181.97). Katsuhiko Yoshizawa, DVM, MS, PhD, DJSTP, DJCVP, DJST, FIATP Kansai Medical University Department of Pa...

Book Review: Birds Minds. Cognition and Behaviour of Australian Native Birds

Passerines, taxonomic group that comprises about two-thirds of the world's existing avian species, originated in the part of Gondwana that today forms Australia (Edwards and Boles, 2002). The ancient supercontinent Gondwana broke up about 180 million years ago, generating the landmasses that we recognize today as Africa, South America, Australia, Antarctica, the Indian subcontinent and the Arab...

Isolation of Chlamydophila psittaci from pet birds in Iran

Avian chlamydiosis is one of the most important infectious diseases of birds. Despite the rapid growth of exotic bird populations in Iran, there is little or no information on the specific infections that these types of birds carry. In this study, conventional isolation methods were used in cell culture to study occurrence of infection in pet birds. Samples from the conjunctiva, choana, and clo...