About one month after the introduction of 30 parrots, of different species, into an aviary housing about 150 birds, some of the original group of parrots showed orange diarrhoea, and eventually 37 died. Gross and histological studies of four affected birds, two Amazonian parrots, one cockatoo and...

This study was conducted to determine the effect of domestication on the maternal and litter behaviour of wild sows and its piglets. Six indigenous and six wild sows and their purebred litters were used in the study. All sows were loose-housed in indoor pens (2.0×2.0 m) equipped with piglet creep...

The aims of implementing biosecurity measures on cattle farms are to preserve a high health status of animals by protecting them from new and existing pathogens and to ensure the production of safe food. General biosecurity measures should be implemented in any farm regardless of any specific...

Feather pecking/self-mutilation is the most frequent and serious problem of psittacine birds the avian practitioners have to deal with in practice. The aetiologic agents of this behaviour may be infectious, parasitic or nutritional, but the most interesting among them are psychological (housing,...

The prevalence of canine leishmaniasis in Mediterranean countries varies from 0.2 to 67.0% with 1.4 to 300 cases of human infection reported annually per country. In Greece, 0.7-48.7% of dogs, 3.9% of cats, 1.2% of rodents (Citellus citellus) and 3.9-9.2% of humans are seropositive, and 25 cases...

It can be easily distinguished that the trade of wild specimens and habitat losses are the most serious reasons for wildlife destruction. Societies utilize wild animal and plant resources for their benefit. The increasing demand and consumption of species is depleting the earth's living natural...

This review covers the environmental toxic agents, many of which are pollutants, in causing congenital malformations and their mode of action. Genome interaction with the microenvironment, where the embryo is developed, is usually the cause of congenital abnormalities. Investigation of teratogenic...

The huge epizootics of highly pathogenic avian influenza (subtype H5N1) in Southeastern Asia over the last two years and especially the transmission of avian influenza viruses to humans have alerted the international scientific community. Many support that the threat of a new influenza pandemic...

During the last decade, 618 pigeons, 182 canaries and 71 psittacines, from Thessalonica greater area (Greece) were examined in the Clinic of Poultry Diseases. Post mortem examination was performed in all birds and samples were collected from the liver, spleen, heart and intestine for...