Use of avian bornavirus isolates to induce proventricular dilatation disease in conures.

Gray, Patricia; Hoppes, Sharman; Suchodolski, Paulette; Mirhosseini, Negin; Payne, Susan; Villanueva, Itamar; L Shivaprasad, H; S Honkavuori, Kirsi; Ian Lipkin, W; Briese, Thomas; M Reddy, Sanjay; Tizard, Ian

doi:10.3201/eid1603.091257

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Use of avian bornavirus isolates to induce proventricular dilatation disease in conures.

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Patricia Gray

Sharman Hoppes

Paulette Suchodolski

Abstract

Avian bornavirus (ABV) is a newly discovered member of the family Bornaviridae that has been associated with the development of a lethal neurologic syndrome in birds, termed proventricular dilatation disease (PDD). We successfully isolated and characterized ABV from the brains of 8 birds with confir...

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