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Endemic infection of the common mynah Acridotheres tristis with Trichomonas gallinae the agent of avian trichomonosis.
Parasitology - 1 Oct 2018
Farooq Hassan Ali, Khan Hammad Ahmad, Alrefaei Abdulwahed Fahad, Tyler Kevin Morris
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Avian trichomonosis is an architypal disease of wild columbids and those birds that predate them. Increasingly though, it has been reported in passerines; a recent and ongoing epidemic in the chaffinches and greenfinches of Europe and outbreaks amongst house finches, American goldfinches and purple finches in North America. The parasite, Trichomonas gallinae, causes lesions in the upper respiratory tract which...
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