| isolation and characterization of avipoxviruses from wild birds in western australia. | avipoxviruses were isolated from wart-like lesions in an australian magpie (gymnorhina tibicen) and a silvereye (zosterops lateralis), and the poxvirus aetiology of wart-like lesions in a magpie-lark (grallina cyanoleuca) was confirmed. the three viruses produced typical pock lesions on the chorioallantoic membrane of embryonated eggs and were able to replicate in trypsin-dispersed chick embryo fibroblast cultures but not confluent monolayer cultures. pock neutralization and immunodiffusion stud ... | 1983 | 6307227 |