Genetic variation of Italian avian paramyxoviruses serotype 9.
Dundon WG, Heidari A, De Nardi R, Terregino C, Capua I, Cattoli G
OIE, FAO and National Reference Laboratory for Avian Influenza and Newcastle Disease, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Viale dell'università 10, 35020, Legnaro, Padova, Italy. wdundon@izsvenezie.it
The haemagglutinin-neuraminidase (HN) and fusion protein (F) gene of four avian paramyoviruses serotype 9 (APMV9) recently isolated from wild birds in Italy have been sequenced. A comparison between the sequences of these four isolates and the prototype virus PMV-9/domestic Duck/New York/22/78 revealed significant sequence variation that suggests that different lineages exist among APMV-9 viruses similar to that seen for APMV-1 (Newcastle disease).
Published 17 June 2010 in Virus Genes, 41(1): 43-6.
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