Subclinical circulation of avian hepatitis E virus within a multiple-age rearing and broiler breeder farm indicates persistence and vertical transmission of the virus

Avian Pathology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 310-318

  Troxler, Salome ^a   Pać, Krzysztof ^b   Prokofieva, Irina ^a   Liebhart, Dieter ^a   Chodakowska, Beata ^c   Furmanek, Danuta ^c   Hess, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b ZD Kozieglowy ^*  (Poland)

^c MERCK ANIMAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; AVIAN HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; MIRIDAE;

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HEPATITIS; BIRD DISEASE; CHEMISTRY; CHICKEN; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HEPEVIRUS; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIVER; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA VIRUS INFECTION; SPLEEN; TRANSMISSION; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CHICKENS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS, VIRAL, ANIMAL; HEPEVIRUS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; LIVER; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POULTRY DISEASES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA VIRUS INFECTIONS; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPLEEN;

EID: 84905679458     PISSN: 03079457     EISSN: 14653338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03079457.2014.924616     Document Type: Article

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