avian tuberculosis

Maffucci is remembered for isolating the bacteria that causes avian tuberculosis.

Grades 1 and 2 may be the result of previous BCG or avian tuberculosis.

Common Starlings may contract avian tuberculosis, avian malaria and retrovirus-induced lymphomas.

Other major disease problems reported in zoo collections have been avian tuberculosis, gastric foreign bodies, bone disease, and heart problems.

Birds can act as vectors for spreading diseases such as psittacosis, salmonellosis, campylobacteriosis, mycobacteriosis (avian tuberculosis), avian influenza (bird flu), giardiasis, and cryptosporidiosis over long distances.