| tissue distribution of psittacid herpesviruses in latently infected parrots, repeated sampling of latently infected parrots and prevalence of latency in parrots submitted for necropsy. | psittacid herpesvirus-1 (pshv-1) is the cause of an acute fatal disease in parrots and is implicated as the cause of papillomatous lesions of the digestive tract. not all infections cause disease and some parrots are infected asymptomatically. latently infected parrots are potential sources for virus dissemination. tissues from parrots that died spontaneously with a history of coming from flocks where a pshv-1 outbreak had occurred were examined for pshv-1 dna. fourteen of 16 parrots examined we ... | 2006 | 17121080 |