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- Title
Novel Borna Virus in Psittacine Birds with Proventricular Dilatation Disease.
- Authors
Honkavuori, Kirsi S.; Shivaprasad, H.L.; Williams, Brent L.; Quan, Phenix-Lan; Hornig, Mady; Street, Craig; Palacios, Gustavo; Hutchison, Stephen K.; Franca, Monique; Egholm, Michael; Briese, Thomas; Lipkin, W. Ian
- Abstract
Pyrosequencing of cDNA from brains of parrots with proventricular dilatation disease (PDD), an unexplained fatal inflammatory central, autonomic, and peripheral nervous system disease, showed 2 strains of a novel Borna virus. Real-time PCR confirmed virus presence in brain, proventriculus, and adrenal gland of 3 birds with PDD but not in 4 unaffected birds.
- Subjects
BORNA disease; VETERINARY virology; VIRUS diseases; PARROTS; NERVOUS system; BIRD diseases; POLYMERASE chain reaction
- Publication
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2008, Vol 14, Issue 12, p1883
- ISSN
1080-6040
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3201/eid1412.080984