Poultry Diagnostic and Research Center, Division of Venkateshwara Hatcheries, Limited, Loni-Kalbhor, Pune, India. jagadeesh.bayry@jenner.ac.uk
Abstract:
We describe the emergence of a nephropathogenic avian infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) with a novel genotype in India. The Indian IBV isolate exhibited a relatively high degree of sequence divergence with reference strains. The highest homology was observed with strain 6/82 (68%) and the least homology with strain Mex/1765/99 (34.3%).