Article
Viral genotyping of infectious bursal disease viruses isolated from the 2002 acute outbreak in Spain and comparison with previous isolates.
Avian diseases - 1 Sept 2005
Dolz R, Majó N, Ordóñez G, Porta R
Abstract excerpt
An infectious bursal disease (IBD) outbreak occurred in the east region of Spain in the spring of 2002 and rapidly spread thorough the whole country, although proper vaccination programs were applied. In this report, 33 infectious bursal disease viruses (IBDVs) isolated from this outbreak were characterized by nucleotide sequencing of the VP2 gene hypervariable region and were compared with reference IBD strains...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Birnaviridae Infections
- Chickens
- Disease Outbreaks
- Genotype
- Immunohistochemistry
- Infectious bursal disease virus
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phylogeny
- Poultry Diseases
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Spain
- Viral Structural Proteins