Article
Lack of detection of host associated differences in Newcastle disease viruses of genotype VIId isolated from chickens and geese.
Virology journal - 13 Sept 2012
Wang Yuyang, Duan Zhiqiang, Hu Shunlin, Kai Yan, Wang Xiaobo, Song Qingqing, Zhong Lei, Sun Qing, Wang Xiaoquan, Wu Yantao, Liu Xiufan
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The goose is usually considered to be resistant even to strains of Newcastle disease virus (NDV) that are markedly virulent for chickens. However, ND outbreaks have been frequently reported in goose flocks in China since the late 1990s with the concurrent emergence of genotype VIId NDV in chickens. Although the NDVs isolated from both chickens and geese in the past 15 years have been predominantly...
Topics
- Animals
- Bird Diseases
- Chickens
- China
- Cluster Analysis
- Geese
- Genotype
- Newcastle Disease
- Newcastle disease virus
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Sequence Homology