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An Epizootiological Report of the Re-emergence and Spread of a Lineage of Virulent Newcastle Disease Virus into Eastern Europe.
Transboundary and emerging diseases - 1 Jun 2017
Fuller C, Löndt B, Dimitrov K M, Lewis N, van Boheemen S, Fouchier R, Coven F, Goujgoulova G, Haddas R, Brown I
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A number of contemporary outbreaks of Newcastle disease (ND) in Israel, Turkey, Georgia and Bulgaria have all been caused by a very similar viruses related to lineage 5a (genotype VIIa). Comparison with published ND virus (NDV) sequences suggests that this virus strain originated in South-East Asia and on introduction has circulated widely in backyard poultry in the Middle East and into Eastern Europe. An...
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