The prevalence of beak and feather disease virus infection in wild populations of parrots and cockatoos in New Zealand

New Zealand Veterinary Journal

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 235-238

  Ha, H J ^a,b   Anderson, I L ^a   Alley, M R ^a   Springett, B P ^a   Gartrell, B D ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b Animal Plant and Fisheries Quarantine and Inspection Agency   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cacatua galerita; Eastern rosella; Introduced parrots; Platycercus eximius; Psittacine beak and feather disease; Psittacine circovirus; Sulphur crested cockatoo

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BEAK; BIRD DISEASE; CIRCOVIRIDAE; COCKATOO; FEATHER; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NEW ZEALAND; PARROT; PATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SKIN INFECTION; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BEAK; BIRD DISEASES; CIRCOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CIRCOVIRUS; COCKATOOS; DNA, VIRAL; FEATHERS; NEW ZEALAND; PARROTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SKIN DISEASES, INFECTIOUS;

AVES; BEAK AND FEATHER DISEASE VIRUS; CACATUA GALERITA; CACATUIDAE; CIRCOVIRIDAE; CIRCOVIRUS; PLATYCERCUS EXIMIUS; PSITTACIDAE; PSITTACIFORMES;

EID: 35448953012     PISSN: 00480169     EISSN: 11760710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00480169.2007.36774     Document Type: Article

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