Abstract Wildlife trade is a profitable economic activity. Birds are among the most heavily traded animals worldwide, with numerous species threatened by pet trade. The present case study was stretched for period of one year to find out status wild birds’ in Bannu and Dera Ismael Khan Divisions. aimed types species, commercial prices bird, routes, overall income generated from dealers whether l...

Psittacosis, also known as parrot fever and ornithosis, is a bacterial infection of humans that can cause severe pneumonia and other serious health problems. It is caused by Chlamydophila psittaci, formerly known as Chlamydia psittaci. From 1988 through 2003, 935 human cases of psittacosis were reported to the CDC and most resulted from exposure to infected pet birds, usually cockatiels, parake...

salmonellosis is one of the most important zoonotic diseases worldwide. salmonella infections in wild birds are reported frequently. the objectives of this study were to isolate salmonella serovars from a large collection of samples obtained from pet birds in tehran, iran, and then to determine the serotypes and antimicrobial susceptibility profile of the isolates. between october 2007 and augu...

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...

This article addresses the aging pet psittacine population’s geriatric disease conditions. Over the past twenty five years, avian husbandry and medicine have undergone drastic changes, including a significant increase in domestically raised pet birds and major advances in avian nutrition. Despite the potentially adverse psychological affects of incubator hatching and handraising (which is a sep...

cage birds like canaries can potentially harbor human pathogens and contribute to transmission and spread of drug resistant infectious agents to human. considering many people's interests to keep canaries, present study was conducted in canaries from yazd to investigate the beta-lactam antibiotics resistant escherichia coli. 109 e. coli isolates from canary faeces in yazd were evaluated to...

Following in vivo studies in pet birds of 6 species, 279 Newcastle disease virus (NDV) reisolates were selected for characterization by the embryonated-chicken-egg mean-death-time, plaque-assay, hemagglutination-elution, and hemagglutinin-thermostability techniques. Initially, the 279 isolates were screened by the mean-death-time and plaque-assay techniques, and 5 sequential isolates were chose...