Acute fatalities following subcutaneous injection of paramyxovirus type 1 vaccines in pigeons

Paramyxovirus disease in racing pigeons

Occurrence, characteristics and control of pigeon paramyxovirus type 1 in pigeons.

Newcastle disease (ND) is a highly contagious and devastating viral disease of poultry and other birds that has a worldwide distribution. ND in pigeons is called paramyxovirosis and is caused by antigenic "pigeon variant" of the virus (pigeon paramyxovirus type 1, PPMV-1). During PPMV-1 infections, central nervous system symptoms and sometimes high mortality are observed. In the case of infecti...

Characterization of Pigeon Paramyxovirus Type 1 Viruses (PPMV-1) Isolated from Iran

Newcastle disease (ND) is one of the contagious viral diseases in avian species. Recently, several ND outbreaks in pigeon caused by pigeon paramyxovirus serotype-1 (PPMV-1) have been reported in limited numbers from Iran and phylogenetic studies have been conducted on partial sequence of NDV fusion (F) gene. In the present study, ten PPMV-1, named Pigeon_paramyxovirus1_isolate_pigeon/Iran/UT_EG...

The isolation of a paramyxovirus from pigeons in South Africa.

A paramyxovirus was isolated from diseased pigeons, submitted to the Poultry Section of the Veterinary Research Institute, Onderstepoort, for post-mortem examination. The mean death time for the isolates was determined to ascertain the virulence of the virus. Infectivity trials showed that the paramyxovirus was non-virulent for 60- and 4-week-old chickens infected by the intraocular and intratr...

Phylogenetic analysis of avian paramyxovirus serotype-1 in pigeons in Japan

To understand the epidemiology of Avian paramyxovirus serotype-1 (APMV-1) in pigeons in Japan, phylogenetic analysis was comprehensively conducted based on partial fusion protein gene using isolate from the surveillance of this virus with previously known Japanese pigeon strains. This surveillance was conducted using feces obtained from domestic pigeons collected in 40 prefectures throughout Ja...