Feather loss syndrome in cockatoos

Gerlach, H.; Leipold, R.

Deutsche Tierärztliche Wochenschrift 93(1): 24-26

1986


ISSN/ISBN: 0341-6593
PMID: 3516633
Document Number: 271951
A specific disorder of feathering occurred among cockatoos in the wild as well as in captivity. Histological changes are described. An unidentified virus (possibly a papovavirus) isolated from an affected salmon-crested cockatoo (Cacuta moluccensis) has been passaged 18 times.

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