Novel borna virus in psittacine birds with proventricular dilatation disease.

ABSTRACT: Pyrosequencing of cDNA from brains of parrots with proventricular dilatation disease (PDD), an unexplained fatal inflammatory central, autonomic, and peripheral nervous system disease, showed 2 strains of a novel Borna virus. Real-time PCR confirmed virus presence in brain, proventriculus, and adrenal gland of 3 birds with PDD but not in 4 unaffected birds.

SUBMITTER: Honkavuori KS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2634650 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature