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Genetic diversity of newcastle disease virus in wild birds and pigeons in West Africa.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Dec 2013
Snoeck Chantal J, Adeyanju Adeniyi T, Owoade Ademola A, Couacy-Hymann Emmanuel, Alkali Bello R, Ottosson Ulf, Muller Claude P
Abstract excerpt
In West and Central Africa, virulent Newcastle disease virus (NDV) strains of the recently identified genotypes XIV, XVII, and XVIII are enzootic in poultry, representing a considerable threat to the sector. The increasing number of reports of virulent strains in wild birds at least in other parts of the world raised the question of a potential role of wild birds in the spread of virulent NDV in sub-Saharan...
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