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The Genome Structure of a New Chicken Virus Identifies It as a Parvovirus

Laboratoire de Biophysique et Radiobiologie, Université Libre de Bruxelles, rue des Chevaux 67, B-1640 Rhode-Saint-Genèse, Belgium

The nucleic acid of chicken parvovirus-like particles showed sensitivity to DNase and S1 nuclease treatment and resistance to digestion with RNase. Viral DNA readily served as a template for self-primed conversion in vitro into a double-stranded form of about 5200 base pairs. There was no evidence for encapsidation of strands of opposite polarities. These findings confirm the taxonomic classification of chicken parvovirus-like particles as fowl parvovirus type 1 within the Parvovirus genus of the Parvoviridae.

Keywords: chicken, parvovirus, genome structure

Received 11 June 1985; accepted 25 June 1985.