title: [Reovirus infection of pheasants (Phasianus colchicus)].
abstract: In this case report we discribe clinic, pathology and diagnostic of an avian reovirus-infection in pheasants. The disease was observed 1993 in a flock of game-pheasants in the western part of Turkey. Of a live-stock of 100 animals, 27 were affected most of them being three to five months old. Beside a general disorder, sick pheasants showed signs of shortness of breath as well as greenish, watery diarrhoea and died within a week. The pathologic findings were dominated by an extreme hepatopathia. In addition a fibrinous tracheitis, a catarrhal inflammation of the gut and a perihepatitis fibrinosa could be observed. From organs of affected pheasants a pathogen could be isolated, which was characterized anti-genetically, by physico-chemical properties an by electronmicroscopy as avian reovirus.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Veterinärkontrolle und Forschung, Izmir, Türkei.
authors.forename: O F
authors.initials: OF
authors.lastname: Mutlu
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Grund
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Cöven
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001715:Bird Diseases; D001717:Birds; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000662:veterinary; D007249:Inflammation; D007830:Larynx / Q000473:pathology; D008099:Liver / Q000473:pathology; D018165:Orthoreovirus; D012088:Reoviridae Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000662:veterinary*; D014132:Trachea / Q000473:pathology; D014136:Tracheitis / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary; D014421:Turkey / Q000453:epidemiology
vernacular_title: Reovirusinfektion von Fasanen (Phasianus colchicus).