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The Solution... Research

Proventricular Dilatation Disease is a killer disease. An accurate, non-invasive screening test is needed to help protect our birds. The solution? Finding out more about it. Determining facts. A formal scientific process called research.
See a summary of Dr. Ritchie's presentation on PDD that was held at Bird Paradise on June 10th, 2006.
Epizootiology of Proventricular Dilation Disease in Breeding Cockatiels - August 2004
Avian PDD Disease Research (Worldwide) - Annotated list of current disease research efforts
Research Update - June 2003
Companion Animal Emerging Disease Group
Psittacine Disease Research
University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine
Progress in Understanding Proventricular Dilatation Disease (1998) Christopher R. Gregory et al., Emerging Diseases Research Group, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia.
A Visit with Dr. Ritchie - September 2002
A visit with Dr. Branson W. Ritchie and the research team at the University of Georgia.

Research is Collaborative

Research is not advanced by a single scientist or research team working in isolation -- it advances by the combined discussion and results of all concerned parties. Simply put, research is a collaborative effort. Research into the cause and control of the disease feeds the research into treatment methods, and vice versa. Veterinary practitioners provide evidence to research teams, and in turn depend on research to help avian companions and breeders whose birds and flocks are affected.

Laypeople assist the doctors, scientists and each other by sharing information about their experiences with this PDD. Sharing conclusive and interim results and experience is the purpose of published papers, conferences and proceedings reports, and other networking (e.g., Internet-based discussion and information sharing, virtual conferencing) among concerned parties.

"These types of partnerships with other universities, veterinarians, aviculturists and pet owners have resulted in successfully fighting diseases that once were unbeatable." - Angela Davids - "A Look at Aviculture Yesterday and Today". BIRDTALK 20:6 (August 2002), p. 33.

Other Information on the Web

PROVENTRICULAR DILATATION DISEASE (PDD) IN SPIX’S MACAWS
Proceeding of the Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany (IZN) ISSN 1431-7338
42.International Symposium on Diseases of Zoo and Wild Animals, May 04 - 08 - 2005, Prague, Czech Republic

Avian Viruses... What They Are and How They Cause Disease. Avian Vet Medical Updates. article based on Ritchie, Branson. Avian Viruses: Function and Control. Lake Worth, Florida: Wingers Publishing Inc, 1995.

Policy Statement for the Humane Care and Use of Birds.
Association of Avian Veterinarians (AAV)

American Association of Avian Pathologists

American Veterinary Medical Association

Association of Avian Veterinarians (AAV)

European Association of Avian Veterinarians

Proventricular Dilatation Disease - Hannis L. Stoddard, III, DVM.
Dr. Stoddard observed PDD in macaws in 1978, and initially called the condition "macaw wasting syndrome" (it is also known as "psittacine wasting syndrome").

Proventricular Dilatation Syndrome, Neuropathic Gastric Dilatation or Macaw Wasting Disease - Linda Pesek, DVM, Westbury Animal Hospital, Westbury, NY. From The Aviary's ASK THE VET column. This article first appeared in SQUAWK, the newsletter of the Big Apple Bird Association.

Experimental Transmission of Psittacine Proventricular Dilatation Disease (PDD) and Preliminary Characterization of a Virus Recovered From Birds With Naturally Occurring and Experimentally Induced PDD (1998) Christopher R. Gregory, Branson W. Ritchie, Kenneth S. Latimer, W. L. Steffens, Raymond P. Campagnoli, Denise Pesti, and Phil D. Lukert, Psittacine Disease Research Group, College of Veterinary Medicine, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602 (USA)

Proventricular Dilatation Disease: A Viral Epornitic (1995) Christopher R. Gregory, Branson W. Ritchie, Kenneth S. Latimer, W. L. Steffens, Raymond P. Campagnoli, Denise Pesti, and Phil D. Lukert, Psittacine Disease Research Group, College of Veterinary Medicine, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602 (USA)

Proventricular Dilatation Syndrome (January 1995) - Christopher R. Gregory et al., Psittacine Disease Research Group, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia. Published by IAS, reprinted in part from material submitted for publication to the Journal of Avian Medicine and Surgery, Association of Avian Veterinarians.

PDD Update - An International Aviculturists Society Publication (Winter 1998) - Published by IAS, proceedings of the International Aviculturists Society Annual Convention, 1995, 1996, 1997 (some papers available from www.funnyfarmexotics.com/IAS). Gregory CR, Ritchie BW, et al. Proventricular Dilitation Disease: A Viral Epornitic.; Proc. Assoc AvianVet, 1997; Ritchie BW, Avian Viruses: Function and Control Lake Worth, Wingers Publishing, 1995

Stop Proventricular Dilitation Disease (PDD) - Published by International Aviculturists Society (IAS)

Proventricular Dilatation Disease (January 1996) - Excerpted from the Proceedings of the International Aviculturists Society, January 1996, Orlando FL. Christopher R. Gregory, DVM, Branson W. Ritchie, DVM, PhD; Kenneth S. Latimer, DVM, PhD; Raymond P. Campagnoli, MS; Cheryl B. Greenacre, DVM; Phil D. Lukert DVM, PhD; Psittacine Disease Research Group, University of Georgia, College of Veterinary Medicine, Athens, Ga. Reprinted in part with permission from Avian Viruses: Function and Control, Wingers Publishing, Lake Worth, FL, 1995.

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