Newcastle Disease
"Newcastle Disease" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An acute febrile, contagious, viral disease of birds caused by an AVULAVIRUS called NEWCASTLE DISEASE VIRUS. It is characterized by respiratory and nervous symptoms in fowl and is transmissible to man causing a severe, but transient conjunctivitis.
| Descriptor ID |
D009521
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C02.782.580.600.080.600 C22.131.630
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Morrison T, Hinshaw VS, Sheerar M, Cooley AJ, Brown D, McQuain C, McGinnes L. Retroviral expressed hemagglutinin-neuraminidase protein protects chickens from Newcastle disease virus induced disease. Microb Pathog. 1990 Dec; 9(6):387-96.