1. Clinical illness in a wild turkey with Laminosioptes cysticola infestation of the viscera and peripheral nerves.
- Author
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Smith KE, Quist CF, and Crum JM
- Subjects
- Animals, Animals, Wild, Brachial Plexus parasitology, Brachial Plexus pathology, Female, Granuloma parasitology, Granuloma pathology, Granuloma veterinary, Inflammation, Mite Infestations blood, Mite Infestations pathology, Peripheral Nervous System Diseases parasitology, Peripheral Nervous System Diseases pathology, Sciatic Nerve parasitology, Sciatic Nerve pathology, Viscera parasitology, Viscera pathology, West Virginia, Mite Infestations veterinary, Mites, Peripheral Nervous System Diseases veterinary
- Abstract
Laminosioptes cysticola, the fowl cyst mite, was found in peripheral nerves and thoracic and abdominal viscera of an emaciated eastern wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) exhibiting severe torticollis, circling, loss of balance, and wing droop. Mites, sometimes accompanied by granulomatous inflammation, were abundant in brachial plexus and sciatic nerves. Mild lymphoplasmacytic perivascular cuffing was present in the cerebellum, but no direct evidence of mites or other infectious agents was found in the central nervous system. This is the first report of L. cysticola infestation in a wild turkey and of the invasion of nervous tissue by this mite.
- Published
- 1997