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Descriptor English: Bird Diseases
Descriptor Spanish: Enfermedades de las Aves
Descriptor enfermedades de las aves
Entry term(s) enfermedades aviares
enfermedades aviarias
Scope note: Enfermedades de aves que no son de corral, por tanto se encuentran usualmente en zoológicos, parques, y en estado salvaje. El término establece diferencia con el de ENFERMEDADES DE LAS AVES DE CORRAL, dado que este último se utiliza para aves que se crían como fuentes de producción de carne o huevos para consumo humano, y que generalmente se encuentran en granjas, criaderos, etc.
Descriptor Portuguese: Doenças das Aves
Descriptor French: Maladies des oiseaux
Entry term(s): Avian Disease
Avian Diseases
Bird Disease
Disease, Avian
Disease, Bird
Diseases, Avian
Diseases, Bird
Tree number(s): C22.131
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001715
Scope note: Diseases of birds not considered poultry, therefore usually found in zoos, parks, and the wild. The concept is differentiated from POULTRY DISEASES which is for birds raised as a source of meat or eggs for human consumption, and usually found in barnyards, hatcheries, etc.
Annotation: IM GEN or unspecified; coord IM with specific dis /vet (IM) or specific bird dis (IM); coord IM with specific bird (IM); for abnormalities or injuries, index under BIRDS /abnorm or BIRDS /inj; don't forget also BIRDS (NIM) if no specific bird is indexed; also check tag ANIMALS; differentiate from POULTRY DISEASES on basis of distinction between BIRDS & POULTRY shown under BIRDS; DF: BIRD DIS
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
TM transmission
UR urine
VI virology
Entry Version: BIRD DIS
DeCS ID: 1739
Unique ID: D001715
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2004/07/13
Bird Diseases - Preferred
Concept UI M0002575
Scope note Diseases of birds not considered poultry, therefore usually found in zoos, parks, and the wild. The concept is differentiated from POULTRY DISEASES which is for birds raised as a source of meat or eggs for human consumption, and usually found in barnyards, hatcheries, etc.
Preferred term Bird Diseases
Entry term(s) Avian Disease
Avian Diseases
Bird Disease
Disease, Avian
Disease, Bird
Diseases, Avian
Diseases, Bird



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