| an outbreak of pacheco's parrot disease in psittacine birds recently imported to campania, italy: isolation of psittacid herpesvirus 2. | the authors describe an outbreak of pacheco's parrot disease (ppd) which occurred in italy in recently imported psittacine birds and was caused by psittacid herpesvirus type 2 (psihv2). the authors stress the different susceptibility to the disease in the species involved. this outbreak showed the failure of the vaccine prophylaxis that had been administered to the birds with ordinary commercial preparations containing psittacid herpesvirus type 1. the authors emphasize the necessity of producin ... | 1996 | 9011159 |
| a novel psittacid herpesvirus found in african grey parrots (psittacus erithacus erithacus). | dna from a novel alphaherpesvirus was amplified from a cloacal papilloma, a cutaneous papilloma, and the normal cloacal mucosa of african grey parrots (psittacus erithacus erithacus). phylogenetically, the virus was most closely related to the psittacid herpesvirus, but demonstrated sufficient nucleotide and amino acid diversity to be considered a new alphaherpesvirus. it is proposed that the previously described psittacid herpesvirus be designated as psittacid herpesvirus 1 (pshv-1), and this n ... | 2005 | 16191697 |
| 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 |