An outbreak of the polyomavirus infection in budgerigars and cockatiels in Slovakia, including a genome analysis of an avian polyomavirus isolate

Avian Diseases

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 120-123

  Literák, Ivan ^a   Šmíd, Bedřich ^b   Dubská, Lenka ^a   Bryndza, Lukáš ^a   Valíček, Lubomír ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Czech Republic)

^b VETERINARY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

APV; Bird; DNA analysis; Electron microscopy; Mellopsitacus; Nymphicus

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIRD DISEASE; COCKATOO; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARAKEET; POLYOMA VIRUS; SLOVAKIA; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; COCKATOOS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; MELOPSITTACUS; POLYOMAVIRUS; POLYOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; SLOVAKIA; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS;

AVES; ELECTRON; MELOPSITTACUS; NYMPHICUS; NYMPHICUS HOLLANDICUS; POLYOMAVIRUS; PSITTACIDAE;

EID: 33644939568     PISSN: 00052086     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1637/7395-061605R.1     Document Type: Article

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