title: Isolation of a reovirus from a broiler chicken flock with high early mortality.
abstract: A reovirus was isolated from a flock of 12,000 broiler chickens which experienced a total mortality of 6.3% up to 35 days. The reovirus produced large syncytia in primary chicken kidney cell cultures with eosinophilic intracytoplasmic inclusion body formation. Infected cells reacted with fluorescein conjugated specific anti-reovirus serum. Negatively strained virions had a double shelled appearance with overall diameter of 65 to 70 nm. The nucleic acid had ten discrete segments with electrophoretic mobilities as would be expected for a reovirus.
authors: Department of Veterinary Pathology and Public Health, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Saifuddin
authors: C R
authors: CR
authors: Wilks
authors: N H
authors: NH
authors: Christensen
authors: Z F
authors: ZF
authors: Fu
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Rice