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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2016

Identification of Goose-Origin Parvovirus as a Cause of Newly Emerging Beak Atrophy and Dwarfism Syndrome in Ducklings.

Kexiang Yu, Xiuli Ma, Zizhang Sheng, Lihong Qi, Cunxia Liu, Dan Wang, Bing Huang, Feng Li, Minxun Song

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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31citing papers in PubMed
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31 citing papers in PubMed, 64 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Kexiang YuInstitute of Poultry Science, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan, Shandong, China.
Xiuli MaInstitute of Poultry Science, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan, Shandong, China.
Zizhang ShengDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.
Lihong QiInstitute of Poultry Science, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan, Shandong, China.
Cunxia LiuInstitute of Poultry Science, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan, Shandong, China.
Dan WangDepartment of Biology and Microbiology, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, USA.
Bing HuangInstitute of Poultry Science, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan, Shandong, China.
Feng LiInstitute of Poultry Science, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan, Shandong, China Department of Biology and Microbiology, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, USA Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, USA feng.li@sdstate.edu mxsong@aliyun.com.
Minxun SongInstitute of Poultry Science, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan, Shandong, China feng.li@sdstate.edu mxsong@aliyun.com.
Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences · CNColumbia University · USSouth Dakota State University · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A recent epizootic outbreak, in China, of duck beak atrophy and dwarfism syndrome (BADS) was investigated using electron microscopic, genetic, and virological studies, which identified a parvovirus with a greater similarity to goose parvovirus (GPV) (97% protein homology) than to Muscovy duck parvovirus (MDPV) (90% protein homology). The new virus, provisionally designated GPV-QH15, was found to be antigenically more closely related to GPV than to MDPV in a virus neutralization assay. These findings were further supported by phylogenetic analysis showing that GPV-QH15 evolved from goose lineage parvoviruses, rather than from Muscovy duck- or other duck species-related parvoviruses. In all, two genetic lineages (GPV I and GPV II) were identified from the GPV samples analyzed, and GPV-QH15 was found to be closely clustered with two known goose-origin parvoviruses (GPVa2006 and GPV1995), together forming a distinctive GPV IIa sublineage. Finally, structural modeling revealed that GPV-QH15 and the closely related viruses GPVa2006 and GPV1995 possessed identical clusters of receptor-interacting amino acid residues in the VP2 protein, a major determinant of viral receptor binding and host specificity. Significantly, these three viruses differed from MDPVs and other GPVs at these positions. Taken together, these results suggest that GPV-QH15 represents a new variant of goose-origin parvovirus that currently circulates in ducklings and causes BADS, a syndrome reported previously in Europe. This new finding highlights the need for future surveillance of GPV-QH15 in poultry in order to gain a better understanding of both the evolution and the biology of this emerging parvovirus.

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AnimalsAtrophyBeakBird DiseasesChinaCluster AnalysisDisease OutbreaksDwarfismGeeseMicroscopy, ElectronNeutralization TestsParvoviridae InfectionsParvovirusPhylogenySequence Analysis, DNA

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PMID27194692
PMCPMC4963502
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