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SUBMITTER: Tomaszewski E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC87771 | biostudies-literature | 2001 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tomaszewski E E Wilson V G VG Wigle W L WL Phalen D N DN
Journal of clinical microbiology 20010201 2
Pacheco's disease (PD) is a common, often fatal, disease of parrots. We cloned a virus isolate from a parrot that had characteristic lesions of PD. Three viral clones were partially sequenced, demonstrating that this virus was an alphaherpesvirus most closely related to the gallid herpesvirus 1. Five primer sets were developed from these sequences. The primer sets were used with PCR to screen tissues or tissue culture media suspected to contain viruses from 54 outbreaks of PD. The primer sets am ...[more]