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ARCHIVES OF VIROLOGY
Volume 155, Issue 3, Pages 435-439Publisher
SPRINGER WIEN
DOI: 10.1007/s00705-010-0589-0
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- South African National Research Foundation
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Beak and feather disease virus (BFDV), the causative agent of psittacine beak and feather disease (PBFD) infects psittaciformes worldwide. We provide an annotated sequence record of three full-length unique genomes of BFDV isolates from budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) from a breeding farm in South Africa. The isolates share > 99% nucleotide sequence identity with each other and similar to 96% nucleotide sequence identity to two recent isolates (Melopsittacus undulatus) from Thailand but only between 91.6 and 86.6% identity with all other full-length BFDV sequences. Maximum-likelihood analysis and recombination analysis suggest that the South African budgerigar BFDV isolates are unique to budgerigars, are non-recombinant in origin, and represent a new genotype of BFDV.
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