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Biochemical and genomic characterization of muscovy duck parvovirus

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A duck parvovirus (DPV) isolated from muscovy ducks during the epizootic in France in 1989 was purified from inoculated allanto-amniotic fluids by CsCl density gradient centrifugation and characterized. Full and empty non-enveloped icosahedral viral particles were observed banding at densities of 1.39 to 1.42 and 1.38 respectively, with a diameter of 22 to 23 nm. Viral proteins were analyzed by SDS-PAGE and the estimated molecular weights of the 3 major proteins were 91, 78 and 58 kDa. The nucleic acid was shown to be a single-stranded DNA of about 5300 bases with terminal palindromic hairpins. These results confirm the previous classification of the virus in the familyParvoviridae established by Jestin et al. [14] on morphological and serological bases. The DPV DNA was reannealed indicating that complementary DNA strands were encapsidated. A partial restriction endonuclease map was also established. This work constitutes the first biochemical and genomic description of a muscovy duck parvovirus.

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Le Gall-Reculé, G., Jestin, V. Biochemical and genomic characterization of muscovy duck parvovirus. Archives of Virology 139, 121–131 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01309459

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