Newcastle disease virus (NDV) is the etiological agent of one of the most important diseases of the poultry industry and it has been identified in most of the avian species, wild and domestic birds. In this work, the isolation of the sample denominated JAP99 was obtained from duck feces collected in Japeri, RJ, which was identified by hemagglutination-inhibition technique (HI). The biological characterization of the pathogenicity of the new isolate was investigated at the Animal Regional Laboratory, Ministry of Agriculture, Campinas, SP. By intracerebral inoculation in one day chicks, the index was 1.4. In the intravenous inoculation in birds of six weeks, the index found was 0.0 and the mean death time in chicken embryos was 62 hours. These results pointed out that the isolate JAP99 is mesogenic for commercial chickens, offering risk for the poultry industry.
Paramyxovirus; Newcastle disease; JAP99; avian pathology