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Ban on wild bird importation accelerated the spread of global viral outbreaks in parrots
2022-06-01
Abstract excerpt
Since the isolation of the first parrot bornavirus (PaBV), which causes slow-onset, fatal neurological disease in various parrot species, in the United States in 2008, PaBVs have spread rapidly worldwide; however, the reason remains unknown. In this study, we show that the most dominant lethal genotype, PaBV-4, spread via the global trade of captive birds. Analyses of traded parrot numbers in the Convention on Int...
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- Literature Corpus work
- f7cb2b4a-fc12-5319-9b23-1bfcbb1a8496
- DOI
- 10.1101/2022.05.31.494240
