Article
Phylogenetic characterization of virulent Newcastle disease viruses isolated during outbreaks in northwestern Iran in 2010.
Archives of virology - 1 Nov 2016
Ahmadi Elham, Pourbakhsh Seyed Ali, Ahmadi Malahat, Mardani Karim, Talebi Alireza
Abstract excerpt
The northwest of Iran shares long borders with three neighboring countries; therefore, it is considered one of the main entry portals of Newcastle disease virus (NDV) into the country. Ten virulent NDVs were recovered from 19 poultry farms of various prefectures in northwestern Iran during Newcas...
Topics
- Animals
- Chickens
- Cluster Analysis
- Disease Outbreaks
- Genotype
- Iran
- Molecular Epidemiology
- Newcastle Disease
- Newcastle disease virus
- Phylogeny
- Poultry Diseases
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Sequence Homology
- Viral Fusion Proteins
