Reoviruses of hoppers are reviewed with emphasis on their transmission, classification, and evolution. Plant reoviruses multiply in both plants and hopper vectors, whereas three non-pathogenic reoviruses are known; leafhopper A virus, Peregrinus maidis reovirus, and Nilaparvata lugens reovirus (NLRV), that do not appear to cause disease in their insect hosts, and do not multiply in plants but s...

Intestinal samples collected from 43 commercial broiler and 33 commercial turkey flocks from all regions of the United States during 2005 and 2006 were examined for the presence of astrovirus, rotavirus, reovirus, and coronavirus by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and for the presence of groups 1 and 2 adenovirus by PCR. Phylogenetic analysis was performed to further char...

UNLABELLED Enteric viruses are important causative agents of human diseases. Among the enteric viruses, reoviruses and enteroviruses are prevalent in various aquatic environments. This study was carried out to detect and compare the presence of reoviruses and enteroviruses by ICC-PCR in one wastewater and three drinking water treatment plants, studying the possibility of using reoviruses as ind...

Enteric diseases cause substantial economic losses to the poultry industry. Astroviruses, rotaviruses, reoviruses, and adenovirus type 1 have been reported as a significant cause of intestinal symptoms in poultry. In the present study, intestinal samples from 70 commercial broiler chicken flocks were examined for the presence of astroviruses, rotavirus, and reovirus by reverse transcription-pol...

Avian reoviruses are members of the orthoreovirus genus in the Reoviridae family (4, 6). Ubiquitous in commercial poultry, they can be differentiated by antigenic configuration, pathotype, relative pathogenicity, growth in cell culture, sensitivity to trypsin, and host specificity (2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12).1 Reoviruses have been isolated from a variety of tissues in chickens affected by as...

Avian reovirus (ARV) infection is a ubiquitous disease of poultry, affecting mostly broiler breeds. Pathogenic effects of ARV such as arthritis and tenosynovitis are attributed to significant economic losses to poultry industry. ARV is classified under genus Orthoreovirus of family Reoviridae (Van Regenmortel et al., 2000). The genome of ARV encodes at least ten structural proteins (λA, λB, λC,...