Combined infection by avian poxvirus and Collyriclum faba in an American crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)

J Zoo Wildl Med. 2005 Mar;36(1):111-4. doi: 10.1638/03-100.

Abstract

An adult American crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) from Virginia, USA, was diagnosed with combined infection of avian poxvirus and the skin fluke Collyriclum faba. The flukes and viral inclusions were combined in a large (4 x 4 cm) multilobulated proliferative mass on the ventrum just cranial to the cloaca. The flukes were identified using light microscopy of organisms obtained by antemortem wedge biopsy. Intraepithelial cytoplasmic inclusions consistent with poxvirus infection were seen on histopathologic examination of the mass.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Avipoxvirus / isolation & purification*
  • Bird Diseases / epidemiology*
  • Bird Diseases / pathology
  • Crows*
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Female
  • Poxviridae Infections / epidemiology
  • Poxviridae Infections / pathology
  • Poxviridae Infections / veterinary*
  • Skin Diseases, Parasitic / epidemiology
  • Skin Diseases, Parasitic / pathology
  • Skin Diseases, Parasitic / veterinary*
  • Trematoda / isolation & purification
  • Trematode Infections / epidemiology
  • Trematode Infections / pathology
  • Trematode Infections / veterinary*