The isolation and characterisation of a Newcastle disease virus from an exotic parrot.
A newcastle disease virus was isolated from a salmon-crested cockatoo (Cacatua moluccensis) illegally introduced into Australia, Viral-characterisation and chicken-transmission studies indicated that the isolate, G5320/1, was a lentogenic pathotype. It caused a severe respiratory disease in chickens exposed oronasally at 1-day old and in chickens housed at 1 day of age with chickens infected with Newcastle disease virus. No harmful effects were detected in 5-week old chickens inoculated intravenously or oranasally with the virus.
D000818:Animals; D002645:Chickens; D009521:Newcastle Disease / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000635:transmission; D009522:Newcastle disease virus / Q000254:growth & development / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D010311:Parrots / Q000382:microbiology*; D011563:Psittaciformes / Q000382:microbiology*