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Volume 15, Number 9—September 2009
Research

Avian Bornaviruses in Psittacine Birds from Europe and Australia with Proventricular Dilatation Disease

Herbert Weissenböck, Tamás Bakonyi, Karin Sekulin, Felix Ehrensperger, Robert J.T. Doneley, Ralf Dürrwald, Richard Hoop, Károly Erdélyi, János Gál, Jolanta Kolodziejek, and Norbert NowotnyComments to Author 
Author affiliations: University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria (H. Weissenböck, T. Bakonyi, K. Sekulin, J. Kolodziejek, N. Nowotny); Szent István University, Budapest, Hungary (T. Bakonyi, J. Gál); University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland (F. Ehrensperger, R. Hoop); West Toowoomba Veterinary Surgery, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia (R.J.T. Doneley); IDT Biologika GmbH, Dessau-Rosslau, Germany (R. Dürrwald); Central Veterinary Institute, Budapest (K. Erdélyi); International Atomic Energy Agency, Seibersdorf, Austria (J. Kolodziejek)

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Figure 1

Avian bornavirus protein demonstrated by immunohistochemical testing in the central nervous system of birds with proventricular dilatation disease (PDD). A) within nuclei, cytoplasm and dendrites of several Purkinje cells of the cerebellum, bar = 50 µm; B) negative control: no immunoreactivity of Purkinje cells in a PDD-negative bird, bar = 50 µm; C–F), different phenotypes of positive neurons: C) within neurons, viral protein is expressed within intranuclear inclusion bodies; D) diffusely withi

Figure 1. Avian bornavirus protein demonstrated by immunohistochemical testing in the central nervous system of birds with proventricular dilatation disease (PDD). A) within nuclei, cytoplasm and dendrites of several Purkinje cells of the cerebellum, bar = 50 µm; B) negative control: no immunoreactivity of Purkinje cells in a PDD-negative bird, bar = 50 µm; C–F), different phenotypes of positive neurons: C) within neurons, viral protein is expressed within intranuclear inclusion bodies; D) diffusely within the nucleus accompanied by faint cytoplasmic staining; E) both, within the nucleus and cytoplasm, with more intense staining of intranuclear inclusion bodies; F) exclusively within the cytoplasm and the nucleus spared, bar = 12.5 µm; G) within an axon in the white matter of the medulla oblongata, bar = 25 µm; H, negative control: no immunoreactivity of a cerebral neuron in a PDD-negative bird, bar = 12.5 µm.

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