title: Toxoplasmosis in a bar-shouldered dove (Geopelia humeralis) from the Zoo of Clères, France.
abstract: Toxoplasmosis causes mortality in several avian species, especially passerine birds. Toxoplasmosis was diagnosed in a bar-shouldered dove (Geopelia humeralis) found dead at the zoo of Clères (France). The bird had necrotizing pneumonia and nephritis with intralesional tachyzoites of Toxoplasma gondii. The diagnosis was confirmed by immunostaining with polyclonal rabbit T. gondii antibodies and by transmission electron microscopy. To our knowledge, the bar-shouldered dove is a new host record for T. gondii.
authors.affiliation: Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Département des Jardins Botaniques et Zoologiques, 57 rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris, France.
authors.forename: Jacques
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rigoulet
authors.affiliation: Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Département des Jardins Botaniques et Zoologiques, 57 rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris, France.
authors.forename: Alain
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hennache
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Anatomo-Pathologique Vétérinaire, BP 303, 37403 Amboise, France.
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lagourette
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Anatomo-Pathologique Vétérinaire, BP 303, 37403 Amboise, France.
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: George
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Anatomo-Pathologique Vétérinaire, BP 303, 37403 Amboise, France.
authors.forename: Loïc
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Longeart
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Anatomo-Pathologique Vétérinaire, BP 303, 37403 Amboise, France.
authors.forename: Jean-Loïc
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Le Net
authors.affiliation: United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland 20705-2350, USA.
authors.forename: Jitender P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Dubey
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000836:Animals, Zoo / Q000469:parasitology*; D001715:Bird Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000469:parasitology; D010856:Columbidae / Q000469:parasitology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005602:France; D008168:Lung / Q000469:parasitology / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000469:parasitology / Q000662:veterinary; D012523:Sarcocystosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000662:veterinary; D014122:Toxoplasma / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D014124:Toxoplasmosis, Animal / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000469:parasitology; D014617:Vacuoles / Q000469:parasitology