A clinical outbreak of polyomavirus infection in shamas (Copsychus malabaricus)

The present article describes for the first time a clinical outbreak of a p olyomavirus infection in shamas (Copsychus malabaricus). Three out of four shamas became ill and died within 14 days after introduction in a passerine aviary. Other birds in the aviary remained clinically healthy. The diagnos is of polyomavirus infection was made by electron microscopic examination o f the liver of a bird that died.