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Proventricular dilatation disease in cockatiels (Nymphicus hollandicus) after infection with a genotype 2 avian bornavirus.
Journal of avian medicine and surgery - 1 Sept 2011
Mirhosseini Negin, Gray Patricia L, Hoppes Sharman, Tizard Ian, Shivaprasad H L, Payne Susan
Abstract excerpt
An isolate of genotype 2 avian bornavirus (ABV) was recovered from a cockatiel (Nymphicus hollandicus) that was euthanatized for an unrelated lesion and showing no clinical evidence of proventricular dilatation disease (PDD). On histopathologic examination, mild inflammatory lesions were present in the heart and brain, but gastrointestinal lesions characteristic of classic PDD were not observed. To investigate if...
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