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Avihepadnavirus diversity in parrots is comparable to that found amongst all other avian species.
Virology - 10 Apr 2013
Piasecki Tomasz, Harkins Gordon W, Chrząstek Klaudia, Julian Laurel, Martin Darren P, Varsani Arvind
Abstract excerpt
Avihepadnaviruses have previously been isolated from various species of duck, goose, stork, heron and crane. Recently the first parrot avihepadnavirus was isolated from a Ring-necked Parakeet in Poland. In this study, 41 psittacine liver samples archived in Poland over the last nine years were tested for presence of Parrot hepatitis B virus (PHBV). We cloned and sequenced PHBV isolates from 18 birds including a...
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