| evidence of muscovy duck parvovirus in muscovy ducklings in california. | muscovy duck parvovirus (mdpv) has been demonstrated in tissue samples from one- to four-week-old commercially reared muscovy ducks that were weak, unable to walk and had a high mortality rate. on postmortem examination, the thigh and leg muscles, and the myocardium were found to be pale, and there was a fibrinous exudate on the capsule of the liver, and ascites. the parvovirus was isolated in embryonated muscovy duck eggs and visualised by negative stain electron microscopy, detected by polymer ... | 2000 | 10674693 |