| detection of a non-cultivatable calicivirus from the white tern (gygis alba rothschildi). | in april 1992, on tern island, french frigate shoals, hawaii (usa), researchers observed a hand-reared white tern hatchling (gygis alba rothschildi) develop vesicular lesions on the webbing between its toes, 6 days after falling out of its nest. vesicular fluid collected from the foot lesions contained virus-like particles having typical calicivirus morphology. calicivirus rna was detected in the vesicular fluid by dot hybridization with a group-specific calicivirus copy dna probe. attempts to c ... | 1996 | 8827672 |