Department of Poultry Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cairo University, Giza 12211, Egypt.
Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cairo University, Giza 12211, Egypt.
Poult Sci. 2022 May;101(5):101781. doi: 10.1016/j.psj.2022.101781. Epub 2022 Feb 11.
Coccidiosis is a devastating worldwide disease and is considered a dreadful disease in lovebirds. Indeed, a problem has been appeared cocktail lovebirds kept in a private pet birdhouse in Sheikh Zayed City, Giza, Egypt, in the shape of blood-tinged diarrhea, birds huddled together and showing signs of inappetence, ruffled feathers, unable to fly, general weakness and emaciation associated with high mortalities. Therefore, this study aimed to diagnose and find a suitable treatment to overcome such problems. To achieve this aim, blood and droppings samples were collected from infected and healthy birds for parasitological and hematological examinations, and tissue samples were collected from freshly dead birds for postmortem and histopathological examinations. A treatment trial was adopted on 50 infected birds and 25 healthy and parasitological negative birds and groups were classified as follows: group 1) 25 infected birds treated with Diclazuril, group 2) infected birds treated with Coccicure, and group 3) 25 birds kept as control negative reference birds. The parasitological identification revealed the presence of Eimeria aratinga (E. aratinga) oocysts in the infected bird intestine. Finally, we concluded that E. aratinga is a serious protozoon parasite infesting lovebirds revealing severe clinical signs, high mortalities, histopathological changes in the intestine and alteration in blood parameters. Diclazuril is an effective drug in treating E. aratinga in cocktail lovebirds.
球虫病是一种毁灭性的全球性疾病，被认为是爱情鸟的一种可怕疾病。事实上，在埃及吉萨的谢赫扎耶德市的私人宠物鸟舍中，出现了一个问题，即血便、鸟类挤在一起、食欲不振、羽毛蓬乱、无法飞行、全身无力和消瘦与高死亡率相关的鸡尾酒爱情鸟。因此，本研究旨在诊断并找到合适的治疗方法来克服这些问题。为了实现这一目标，从感染和健康的鸟类中采集血液和粪便样本进行寄生虫学和血液学检查，并从新死亡的鸟类中采集组织样本进行剖检和组织病理学检查。对 50 只感染鸟和 25 只健康且寄生虫阴性的鸟进行了治疗试验，并将它们分为以下几组：组 1）25 只感染的鸟用地克珠利治疗，组 2）感染的鸟用地克珠利治疗，组 3）25 只作为阴性对照的鸟。寄生虫学鉴定显示感染鸟的肠道中存在 Aratinga 艾美耳球虫（Eimeria aratinga）卵囊。最后，我们得出结论，E. aratinga 是一种严重的原生动物寄生虫，感染爱情鸟会出现严重的临床症状、高死亡率、肠道组织病理学变化和血液参数改变。地克珠利是治疗鸡尾酒爱情鸟中 E. aratinga 的有效药物。
