During 1986-87, in 25 pet shops and a children's zoo, faecal samples from 10 dogs, 5 cats, 19 rabbits, 7 guinea pigs, 3 golden hamsters, 4 tortoises, 96 parrots, 78 canaries, 10 pigeons, 19 other birds, and water samples from 28 aquaria containing imported terrapins yielded Salmonella from 2 dogs,...

C. psittaci was isolated from the sputum and throat of two out of four members of a family, after two of them had been hospitalized with hepatitis, and also from the liver of their parrot. Their other two parrots had already died.

A case is reported in a thin, mature Green-winged macaw (Ara chloroptera) housed in an aviary which was found on examination to be hyperglycaemic, polyuric, polydipsic, polyphagic and was producing voluminous pale green stools. The bird died and at necropsy, foci of granulomatous inflammation were...

Knemidokoptes pilae was found on the skin of 3 budgerigars (M. undulatus) with a mange-like disease. This is thought to be the first record of this mite in Mexico.