Avian Bornaviruses in Psittacine Birds from Europe and Australia with Proventricular Dilatation Disease

Avian Bornaviruses in Psittacine Birds from Europe and Australia with Proventricular Dilatation Disease

To determine whether avian bornaviruses (ABVs) were a factor in proventricular dilatation disease (PDD), we used immunohistochemistry, reverse transcription–PCR, and nucleotide sequence analysis to examine paraffin wax–embedded or frozen tissue samples of 31 psittacine birds with this disease. PDD i...

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Main Authors: Herbert Weissenböck, Tamás Bakonyi, Karin Sekulin, Felix Ehrensperger, Robert J.T. Doneley, Ralf Dürrwald, Richard Hoop, Károly Erdélyi, János Gál, Jolanta Kolodziejek, Norbert Nowotny
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2009-09-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Proventricular dilatation disease
PDD
psittacine birds
avian bornavirus
Borna disease virus
viruses
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/15/9/09-0353_article

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https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/15/9/09-0353_article

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