Acta Veterinaria Hungarica
Volume/Issue:
Volume 56: Issue 4
Poxvirus infection in Hungarian great tits ( Parus major ): Case report
Authors: Elena Palade 1 , Nóra Biró 2 , Mihály Dobos-Kovács 1 , Zoltán Demeter 1 , Míra Mándoki 1 , and Miklós Rusvai 1
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  • 1 Szent István University Department of Pathology and Forensic Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Science H-1400 Budapest P.O. Box 2 Hungary
  • 2 Budaörsi Veterinary Clinic and Laboratory Budaörs Hungary
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1556/avet.56.2008.4.11
Page Count:
539–546
Publication Date:
01 Dec 2008
Online Publication Date:
30 Oct 2008
Article Category:
Research Article
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From a total of 1819 great tits ( Parus major ) ringed in 2007 in Pilis Mountains, Hungary, 15 birds presented nodular proliferative lesions on different areas of the head and eyelids, suggesting a poxvirus infection. Three birds were submitted for analysis. The presence of avipoxvirus infection was confirmed by histopathology, electron microscopy (EM) and a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) based technique. Nucleotide sequence analysis of a 428 base pairs (bp) fragment of the viral 4b core protein gene revealed 100% identity between two of the Hungarian isolates (PM9 HUN, PM33 HUN) and two great tit poxvirus strains isolated in Norway in 1973 (GTV A256, GTV A311). The third Hungarian isolate (PM34 HUN) was more closely related to a different Norwegian isolate (GTVA310) than to the Hungarian isolates. The nucleotide sequence analysis of a shorter fragment of the viral 4b core protein (227 bp) gene revealed 100% identity between the Hungarian isolates, the same Norwegian isolates and a great tit poxvirus strain detected in Austria in 2007.

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Acta Veterinaria Hungarica
Print ISSN:
0236-6290
Online ISSN:
1588-2705
Keywords:
Avipoxvirus; great tit; Hungary; histopathology; electron microscopy; polymerase chain reaction; phylogeny

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