A unique isolate of beak and feather disease virus isolated from budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) in South Africa.
Beak and feather disease virus (BFDV), the causative agent of psittacine beak and feather disease (PBFD) infects psittaciformes worldwide. We provide an annotated sequence record of three full-length unique genomes of BFDV isolates from budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) from a breeding farm in South Africa. The isolates share >99% nucleotide sequence identity with each other and approximately 96% nucleotide sequence identity to two recent isolates (Melopsittacus undulatus) from Thailand but only between 91.6 and 86.6% identity with all other full-length BFDV sequences. Maximum-likelihood analysis and recombination analysis suggest that the South African budgerigar BFDV isolates are unique to budgerigars, are non-recombinant in origin, and represent a new genotype of BFDV.
Varsani
Arvind
A
Electron Microscope Unit, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa.
de Villiers
Gillian K
GK
Regnard
Guy L
GL
Bragg
Robert R
RR
Kondiah
Kulsum
K
Hitzeroth
Inga I
II
Rybicki
Edward P
EP
D000818:Animals; D001715:Bird Diseases / Q000821:virology*; D018173:Circoviridae Infections / Q000662:veterinary* / Q000821:virology; D017925:Circovirus / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D004279:DNA, Viral / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D016679:Genome, Viral; D005838:Genotype; D046408:Melopsittacus / Q000821:virology*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D013019:South Africa
D004279:DNA, Viral