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SUBMITTER: Susta L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3993629 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Susta Leonardo L Hamal Krishna R KR Miller Patti J PJ Cardenas-Garcia Stivalis S Brown Corrie C CC Pedersen Janice C JC Gongora Victor V Afonso Claudio L CL
Journal of clinical microbiology 20140212 5
An outbreak of Newcastle disease (ND) in poultry was reported in Belize in 2008. The characteristics of three virulent Newcastle disease virus (NDV) isolates from this outbreak (NDV-Belize-3/08, NDV-Belize-4/08, and NDV-Belize-12/08) were assessed by genomic analysis and by clinicopathological characterization in specific-pathogen-free (SPF) chickens. The results showed that all three strains belong to NDV genotype V and are virulent, as assessed by the intracerebral pathogenicity index and the ...[more]