Turkeypox virus

Turkeypox virus
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(unranked): Virus
Realm: Varidnaviria
Kingdom: Bamfordvirae
Phylum: Nucleocytoviricota
Class: Pokkesviricetes
Order: Chitovirales
Family: Poxviridae
Genus: Avipoxvirus
Species:
Turkeypox virus

Turkeypox virus is a virus of the family Poxviridae and the genus Avipoxvirus that causes turkeypox.[1] It is one of the most common diseases in the wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) population.[2] Turkeypox, like all avipoxviruses, is transmitted either through skin contact or by arthropods (typically mosquitos) acting as mechanical vectors.[3]

Turkeypox virus was first reported in a turkey flock in New York by E.L. Burnett,[4] and may be identified by nodular proliferative skin lesions on the non-feathered parts of the body and in the fibrino-necrotic and proliferative lesions in the mucous membrane of the upper respiratory tract.[5]

  1. ^ Timoney, John Francis (1988), Hagan and Bruner's Microbiology and Infectious Diseases of Domestic Animals, Cornell University Press, p. 433, ISBN 978-0-8014-1896-9
  2. ^ Wright, Elizabeth J.; Nayar, Jai K.; Forrester, Donald J. (January 2005). "Interactive effects of turkeypox virus and Plasmodium hermani on Turkey poults". Journal of Wildlife Diseases. 41 (1): 141–148. doi:10.7589/0090-3558-41.1.141. PMID 15827220. S2CID 1071992.
  3. ^ Wobeser, Gary A. (1997), Diseases of Wild Waterfowl, Springer, p. 50, ISBN 978-0-306-45590-2
  4. ^ Singh, Alka; Dash, B.B.; Kataria, J. M.; Dandapat, S.; Dhama, K. (2003). "Characterisation of an indian isolate of turkey pox virus". Indian Journal of Comparative Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases. 24 (2): 149–152.
  5. ^ Prukner-Radovčić, E.; Lüschow, D.; Grozdanić, I. Ciglar; Tišljar, M.; Mazija, H.; Vranešić, Đ.; Hafez, H. M. (2006). "Isolation and Molecular Biological Investigations of Avian Poxviruses from Chickens, a Turkey, and a Pigeon in Croatia". Avian Diseases. 50 (3): 440–444. doi:10.1637/7506-012006R.1. JSTOR 4099085. PMID 17039847. S2CID 28158634.