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Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 32(3), 1996, pp. 461-467
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Detection of a non-cultivatable calicivirus from the white tern (Gygis alba rothschildi)

SE Poet, DE Skilling, JL Megyesl, WG Gilmartin, and AW Smith


ABSTRACT

In April 1992, on Tern Island, French Frigate Shoals, Hawaii (USA), researchers observed a hand-reared white tern hatchling (Gygis alba rothschildi) develop vesicular lesions on the webbing between its toes, 6 days after falling out of its nest. Vesicular fluid collected from the foot lesions contained virus-like particles having typical calicivirus morphology. Calicivirus RNA was detected in the vesicular fluid by dot hybridization with a group-specific calicivirus copy DNA probe. Attempts to cultivate the virus in African green monkey kidney cells and porcine kidney cells were unsuccessful. This is the first report of a calicivirus infection associated with vesicular disease in a wild avian species.




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