title: Detection of a non-cultivatable calicivirus from the white tern (Gygis alba rothschildi).
abstract: In April 1992, on Tern Island, French Frigate Shoals, Hawaii (USA), researchers observed a hand-reared white tern hatchling (Gygis alba rothschildi) develop vesicular lesions on the webbing between its toes, 6 days after falling out of its nest. Vesicular fluid collected from the foot lesions contained virus-like particles having typical calicivirus morphology. Calicivirus RNA was detected in the vesicular fluid by dot hybridization with a group-specific calicivirus copy DNA probe. Attempts to cultivate the virus in African green monkey kidney cells and porcine kidney cells were unsuccessful. This is the first report of a calicivirus infection associated with vesicular disease in a wild avian species.
authors.affiliation: College of Veterinary Medicine, Oregon State University Corvallis 97331, USA.
authors.forename: S E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Poet
authors.forename: D E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Skilling
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Megyesl
authors.forename: W G
authors.initials: WG
authors.lastname: Gilmartin
authors.forename: A W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001715:Bird Diseases / Q000821:virology*; D001717:Birds; D002139:Caliciviridae / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D017250:Caliciviridae Infections / Q000662:veterinary* / Q000821:virology; D002460:Cell Line; D002522:Chlorocebus aethiops; D004279:DNA, Viral / Q000032:analysis; D006254:Hawaii; D008854:Microscopy, Electron / Q000662:veterinary; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000032:analysis; D014709:Vero Cells
chemical_list: D004279:DNA, Viral; D012367:RNA, Viral