Newcastle disease virus and Chlamydia psittaci in free-living raptors from eastern Germany

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 57-63

  Schettler, Elvira ^a   Fickel, Jörns ^a   Hotzel, Helmut ^b   Sachse, Konrad ^b   Streich, Wolf Jürgen ^a   Wittstatt, Ulrich ^c   Frölich, Kai ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^c Inst Lebensm Arzneimittel/Tierseu   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chlamydia psittaci; Germany; Newcastle disease virus; Polymerase chain reaction; Raptors

Indexed keywords

AVES; BUTEO; BUTEO BUTEO; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; FALCO; FALCO TINNUNCULUS; NEWCASTLE DISEASE VIRUS; PARAMYXOVIRIDAE; RAPTORES; STRIGIFORMES; STRIX ALUCO; TYTO ALBA; TYTONIDAE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIRD DISEASE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; EPIDEMIC; GERMANY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NEWCASTLE DISEASE PARAMYXOVIRUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORNITHOSIS; OWL; PATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RAPTOR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIRD DISEASES; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GERMANY; NEWCASTLE DISEASE; NEWCASTLE DISEASE VIRUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSITTACOSIS; RAPTORS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 0141993278     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-39.1.57     Document Type: Article

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