Psittacine Beak and Feather Disease: A First Survey of the Distribution of Beak and Feather Disease Virus Inside the Population of Captive Psittacine Birds in Germany

Journal of Veterinary Medicine Series B: Infectious Diseases and Veterinary Public Health

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 368-371

  Rahaus, Markus ^a   Wolff, Manfred H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; CIRCOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CIRCOVIRUS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; GERMANY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSITTACIFORMES;

ANIMALIA; AVES; BEAK AND FEATHER DISEASE VIRUS; PSITTACIFORMES;

EID: 0142091106     PISSN: 09311793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0450.2003.00696.x     Document Type: Article

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