Characterisation of the Indian strain of duck hepatitis B virus (DHBV) and development of a carrier duck colony for antiviral drug testing.
Duck hepatitis B virus (DHBV) infected carrier ducks serve as a useful model for testing anti-hepadnavirus drugs. This needs a well characterised duck hepatitis B virus strain. We cloned and sequenced the complete genome of duck hepatitis B virus strain of Indian origin. It was 3021 nucleotides in length and had all the recognisable open reading frames (Polymerase: 20-2530 nucletides, Surface: 693-1787 nucleotides and Core: 2518-412). Using an inoculum of 50 microliters serum containing 1 x 10(11) virus particles/ml, we could infect 80% of one day old ducklings and develop a duck colony.
Munshi
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Department of Pathology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Mehrotra
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Panda
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D000818:Animals; D000998:Antiviral Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D001483:Base Sequence; D004372:Ducks; D016679:Genome, Viral; D018347:Hepadnaviridae Infections / Q000188:drug therapy*; D015611:Hepatitis B Virus, Duck / Q000187:drug effects / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data
D000998:Antiviral Agents