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|q1= What is your primary differential diagnosis?
|q1= What is your primary differential diagnosis?
|a1= Poxvirus infection of the conjunctiva and periorbital skin.
|a1= Poxvirus infection of the conjunctiva and periorbital skin.
|l1= Poxvirus Skin Infections
|l1= Fowl Pox
|q2= List several possible differential diagnoses.
|q2= List several possible differential diagnoses.
|a2= In psittacines, circovirus – PBFD – must also be considered as a similar lesion can be seen.
|a2= In psittacines, circovirus – PBFD – must also be considered as a similar lesion can be seen.
In all birds, other infectious diseases, hypersensitivity, and trauma should be ruled out.
In all birds, other infectious diseases, hypersensitivity, and trauma should be ruled out.
|l2= Poxvirus Skin Infections
|l2= Psittacine Beak and Feather Disease
|q3= What is necessary to make a definitive diagnosis?
|q3= What is necessary to make a definitive diagnosis?
|a3= A definitive diagnosis is made histologically by observing the characteristic intracytoplasmic inclusion bodies in epithelial cells.
|a3= A definitive diagnosis is made histologically by observing the characteristic intracytoplasmic inclusion bodies in epithelial cells.
|l3= Poxvirus Skin Infections
|l3= Fowl Pox#Diagnosis
|q4= How is the disease transmitted?
|q4= How is the disease transmitted?
|a4= The disease can spread by direct contact and by biting insects; control of the latter may be necessary to stop an outbreak.
|a4= The disease can spread by direct contact and by biting insects; control of the latter may be necessary to stop an outbreak.
|l4= Poxvirus Skin Infections
|l4= Fowl Pox
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