Cryptococcus bacillisporus causing cryptococcoma of the beak of an African grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus), Portugal

We report a severe case of rhinothecal cryptococcoma in a 13-year-old female African Grey Parrot (Psittacus erithacus). The bird was born and bred in captivity in Portugal. The beak was deformed and showed several round soft masses, and microscopic examination revealed the presence of cells suggesti...

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Autores principales: Silva, Carolina, Juan-Sallés, Carles, Mendes, Joana, Mendes, Ana, Ruivo, Mariana, Abad, Juan L., Hagen, Ferry, Colom, Maria F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8427220/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34522600
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2021.08.006
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author Silva, Carolina
Juan-Sallés, Carles
Mendes, Joana
Mendes, Ana
Ruivo, Mariana
Abad, Juan L.
Hagen, Ferry
Colom, Maria F.
author_facet Silva, Carolina
Juan-Sallés, Carles
Mendes, Joana
Mendes, Ana
Ruivo, Mariana
Abad, Juan L.
Hagen, Ferry
Colom, Maria F.
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description We report a severe case of rhinothecal cryptococcoma in a 13-year-old female African Grey Parrot (Psittacus erithacus). The bird was born and bred in captivity in Portugal. The beak was deformed and showed several round soft masses, and microscopic examination revealed the presence of cells suggestive for Cryptococcus. Phenotypic and molecular analyses identified the obtained yeast culture as C. bacillisporus (AFLP5/VGIII). By phylogenetic analysis the parrot strain clustered with clinical C. bacillisporus strains from Mexico.
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spelling pubmed-84272202021-09-13 Cryptococcus bacillisporus causing cryptococcoma of the beak of an African grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus), Portugal Silva, Carolina Juan-Sallés, Carles Mendes, Joana Mendes, Ana Ruivo, Mariana Abad, Juan L. Hagen, Ferry Colom, Maria F. Med Mycol Case Rep Case Report We report a severe case of rhinothecal cryptococcoma in a 13-year-old female African Grey Parrot (Psittacus erithacus). The bird was born and bred in captivity in Portugal. The beak was deformed and showed several round soft masses, and microscopic examination revealed the presence of cells suggestive for Cryptococcus. Phenotypic and molecular analyses identified the obtained yeast culture as C. bacillisporus (AFLP5/VGIII). By phylogenetic analysis the parrot strain clustered with clinical C. bacillisporus strains from Mexico. Elsevier 2021-09-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8427220/ /pubmed/34522600 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2021.08.006 Text en © 2021 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
spellingShingle Case Report
Silva, Carolina
Juan-Sallés, Carles
Mendes, Joana
Mendes, Ana
Ruivo, Mariana
Abad, Juan L.
Hagen, Ferry
Colom, Maria F.
Cryptococcus bacillisporus causing cryptococcoma of the beak of an African grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus), Portugal
title Cryptococcus bacillisporus causing cryptococcoma of the beak of an African grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus), Portugal
title_full Cryptococcus bacillisporus causing cryptococcoma of the beak of an African grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus), Portugal
title_fullStr Cryptococcus bacillisporus causing cryptococcoma of the beak of an African grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus), Portugal
title_full_unstemmed Cryptococcus bacillisporus causing cryptococcoma of the beak of an African grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus), Portugal
title_short Cryptococcus bacillisporus causing cryptococcoma of the beak of an African grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus), Portugal
title_sort cryptococcus bacillisporus causing cryptococcoma of the beak of an african grey parrot (psittacus erithacus), portugal
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8427220/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34522600
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2021.08.006
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