| a novel psittacine adenovirus identified during an outbreak of avian chlamydiosis and human psittacosis: zoonosis associated with virus-bacterium coinfection in birds. | chlamydophila psittaci is found worldwide, but is particularly common among psittacine birds in tropical and subtropical regions. while investigating a human psittacosis outbreak that was associated with avian chlamydiosis in hong kong, we identified a novel adenovirus in epidemiologically linked mealy parrots, which was not present in healthy birds unrelated to the outbreak or in other animals. the novel adenovirus (tentatively named psittacine adenovirus hku1) was most closely related to duck ... | 2014 | 25474263 |
| application of cross-priming amplification (cpa) for detection of fowl adenovirus (fadv) strains. | fowl adenoviruses (fadvs) are widely distributed among chickens. detection of fadvs is mainly accomplished by virus isolation, serological assays, various polymerase chain reaction (pcr) assays, and loop-mediated isothermal amplification (lamp). to increase the diagnostic capacity of currently applied techniques, cross-priming amplification (cpa) for the detection of the fadv hexon gene was developed. the single cpa assay was optimised to detect all serotypes 1-8a-8b-11 representing the species ... | 2015 | 25655263 |
| development of a new real-time polymerase chain reaction assay to detect duck adenovirus a dna and application to samples from swiss poultry flocks. | between 2008 and 2012, commercial swiss layer and layer breeder flocks experiencing problems in laying performance were sampled and tested for infection with duck adenovirus a (dadv-a; previously known as egg drop syndrome 1976 virus). organ samples from birds sent for necropsy as well as blood samples from living animals originating from the same flocks were analyzed. to detect virus-specific dna, a newly developed quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction method was applied, and the pre ... | 2014 | 24590667 |
| serological survey for select infectious agents in wild magellanic penguins (spheniscus magellanicus) in argentina, 1994-2008. | despite being the most numerous penguin species in south america, exposure of the magellanic penguin (spheniscus magellanicus) to pathogens has not yet been thoroughly assessed. we collected serum from 1,058 magellanic penguins at 10 breeding colonies along the entire latitudinal range of this species in argentina. the work spanned 10 breeding seasons over 15 yr (1994-2008). sera were tested for antibodies to select infectious agents. antibodies reacting against 16 pathogens were detected (serop ... | 2020 | 31237822 |