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Detection and heterogeneity of herpesviruses causing Pacheco's disease in parrots.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Feb 2001
Tomaszewski E, Wilson V G, Wigle W L, Phalen D N
Abstract excerpt
Pacheco's disease (PD) is a common, often fatal, disease of parrots. We cloned a virus isolate from a parrot that had characteristic lesions of PD. Three viral clones were partially sequenced, demonstrating that this virus was an alphaherpesvirus most closely related to the gallid herpesvirus 1. Five primer sets were developed from these sequences. The primer sets were used with PCR to screen tissues or tissue...
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