Novel borna virus in psittacine birds with proventricular dilatation disease

Emerg Infect Dis. 2008 Dec;14(12):1883-6. doi: 10.3201/eid1412.080984.

Abstract

Pyrosequencing of cDNA from brains of parrots with proventricular dilatation disease (PDD), an unexplained fatal inflammatory central, autonomic, and peripheral nervous system disease, showed 2 strains of a novel Borna virus. Real-time PCR confirmed virus presence in brain, proventriculus, and adrenal gland of 3 birds with PDD but not in 4 unaffected birds.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Adrenal Glands / virology
  • Animals
  • Bird Diseases / virology*
  • Borna disease virus* / classification
  • Borna disease virus* / genetics
  • Borna disease virus* / isolation & purification
  • Brain / virology
  • Dilatation, Pathologic / veterinary*
  • Proventriculus / virology*
  • Psittaciformes / virology*
  • Species Specificity
  • Stomach Diseases / veterinary*
  • Stomach Diseases / virology
  • Syndrome