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Identification of a European interserotypic reassortant strain of infectious bursal disease virus.
Avian pathology : journal of the W.V.P.A - 1 Feb 2017
Soubies Sébastien M, Courtillon Céline, Briand François-Xavier, Queguiner-Leroux Maryline, Courtois David, Amelot Michel, Grousson Karine, Morillon Paul, Herin Jean-Bernard, Eterradossi Nicolas
Abstract excerpt
Infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV, family Birnaviridae) is a bi-segmented double-stranded RNA virus for which two serotypes are described. Serotype 1 replicates in the bursa of Fabricius and causes an immunosuppressive and potentially fatal disease in young chickens. Serotype 2 is apathogenic in poultry species. Up to now, only one natural event of interserotypic reassortment has been described after the...
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