RESEARCH ARTICLES

PREVALENCE OF NEWCASTLE DISEASE AMONG INDIAN PARROTS (PSITTACULA KRAMERI)
V. Vijayan and S. Sulochana

Journal of Veterinary and Animal Sciences.1985. 16:61-64.

Copyright: © 1985 V. Vijayan  et.al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.



Abstract


Prevalence of Newcastle disease among Indian parrots was investigated by sero conversion and by virus isolation methods. 16.5% of the 103 serum samples examined possessed HI antibody. The titre ranged from 20 to 160. None of the birds examined excreted the virus by orofaecal route.