date:May 22, 2012
rus called phiCA82 in turkeys that potentially could be used as an alternative to antibiotics to fight multi-drug-resistant pathogens in poultry. They also identified common avian viruses like astrovirus, reovirus and rotavirus, and RNA viruses belonging to the Picornaviridae family.
In addition, they discovered previously unknown turkey viruses like picobirnavirus, a virus implicated in enteric disease in other agricultural animals, and a calicivirus, a type of virus often associated with hum