Evidence of Psittacine beak and feather disease virus spillover into wild critically endangered Orange-bellied parrots (Neophema chrysogaster)

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 288-296

  Peters, Andrew ^a   Patterson, Edward I ^a   Baker, Barry G B ^b   Holdsworth, Mark ^c   Sarker, Subir ^a   Ghorashi, Seyed A ^a   Raidal, Shane R ^a  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Circovirus; PBFD; Psittacine beak and feather disease; Threatened species; Wildlife disease

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; AUSTRALIA; BIRD DISEASES; CIRCOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CIRCOVIRUS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARROT; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; AUSTRALIA; BIRD DISEASES; CIRCOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CIRCOVIRUS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; PARROTS;

EID: 84905733047     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/2013-05-121     Document Type: Article

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