Beak and feather disease virus: biology and resultant disease
Sarker, Subir, Forwood, Jade K., and Raidal, Shane R. (2020) Beak and feather disease virus: biology and resultant disease. WikiJournal of Science, 3 (1). 7.
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Abstract
The beak and feather disease virus (BFDV) causes psittacine beak and feather disease, an often chronic and fatal disease in psittacine birds. The virus most commonly infects psittacine birds, but is also capable of infecting non-psittacine bird species in Australasia. The virus induces an immunosuppressive condition with chronic symmetrical irreversible loss of feather, as well as beak and claw deformities eventually leading to death. No specific treatment is currently commercially available for infected birds; however, a combination of quarantine and hygiene control, diagnostic testing and enhancing flock adaptive immunity is recommended to provide the most effective and sustainable control. Recent structural determination of BFDV capsid protein provides insights into the different assemblies that can be formed from one of the smallest known DNA viruses.
| Item ID: | 79835 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Scholarly Work) |
| ISSN: | 2470-6345 |
| Keywords: | BFDV structure, circovirus, Parrots |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Jun 2024 06:41 |
| FoR Codes: | 30 AGRICULTURAL, VETERINARY AND FOOD SCIENCES > 3009 Veterinary sciences > 300914 Veterinary virology @ 100% |
| SEO Codes: | 10 ANIMAL PRODUCTION AND ANIMAL PRIMARY PRODUCTS > 1004 Livestock raising > 100499 Livestock raising not elsewhere classified @ 100% |
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