New reovirus involved in tenosynovitis with high morbidity in broilers, in France

10.06.2013

Vet Rec (2013)

Reaserchers at the University of Vienna. have identified a new Reovirus causing substantial losses in broiler production in France. The new reovirus isolates differ serologically and genetically from the well described reovirus isolates used in commercial vaccines which were not capable of preventing the disease.