The First Record of an Aggressive Form of Ocular Tumour Enhanced by Marek’s Disease Virus Infection in Layer Flock in Al-Najaf, Iraq [PDF]
Veterinary Medicine InternationalMarek’s disease (MD) is a highly infectious poultry illness with a tendency to form tumours in peripheral nerves and internal organs of affected birds. Tumours accompany MD, mostly caused by oncogenic Gallid alpha herpesvirus 2 (MD Herpes virus serotype ...
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Rapid taxonomic categorization of short, abundant virus sequences for ecological analyses. [PDF]
Ecol EvolPublic health concerns about recent viral epidemics have motivated researchers to seek novel ways to understand pathogen infection in native, wildlife hosts. With its deep history of tools and perspectives for understanding the abundance and distribution
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The extraordinary evolutionary history of the reticuloendotheliosis viruses. [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 2013 The reticuloendotheliosis viruses (REVs) comprise several closely related amphotropic retroviruses isolated from birds. These viruses exhibit several highly unusual characteristics that have not so far been adequately explained, including their extremely
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Structural Insights Into the Nuclear Import of Gallid Alphaherpesvirus 1 Large Tegument Protein. [PDF]
MicrobiologyopenThe study identifies and characterizes a bipartite nuclear localization signal within the GaAHV‐1 UL36 large tegument protein, revealing its structural interaction with importin α/β1 and confirming a conserved mechanism of nuclear import through biochemical, crystallographic, and mutational analyses.
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Pathology and Molecular Diagnosis of Marek's Disease Virus in Chickens in Nigeria. [PDF]
Scientifica (Cairo)Marek’s disease caused by Marek’s disease virus (MDV) serotype 1 is an economically important neoplastic disease of poultry. Diagnosis of this disease is usually based on clinical signs, postmortem lesions, and diagnostic tests like cytology, histopathology, and molecular‐based methods.
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The Requirement of Turkey Herpesvirus (HVT) Glycoprotein C During Natural Infection in Chickens and Turkeys [PDF]
PathogensThe glycoprotein C (gC) of gallid alphaherpesvirus 2—better known as Marek’s disease (MD) virus (MDV)—and gallid alphaherpesvirus 3 is required for horizontal transmission in chickens.
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mRNA Splicing of UL44 and Secretion of Alphaherpesvirinae Glycoprotein C (gC) Is Conserved among the Mardiviruses [PDF]
VirusesMarek’s disease (MD), caused by gallid alphaherpesvirus 2 (GaAHV2) or Marek’s disease herpesvirus (MDV), is a devastating disease in chickens characterized by the development of lymphomas throughout the body.
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Investigation of a herpesvirus outbreak in mixed breeds of adult domestic ducks using next generation sequencing. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 This report characterizes the first lethal outbreak of Marek's disease on a large farm of mixed-breed adult ducks (>18,000) and identifies the pathogen that resulted in high mortality (35%).
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Development of subfamily-based consensus PCR assays for the detection of human and animal herpesviruses. [PDF]
Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis, 2023 Consensus PCR assays that can be used to sensitively detect several herpesvirus (HV) species across the different subfamilies were developed in this study.
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Questionnaire study suggests grave consequences of infectious laryngotracheitis, infectious coryza and mycoplasmosis in small chicken flocks. [PDF]
Acta Vet Scand, 2023 BackgroundA growing number of people in western countries keep small chicken flocks. In Sweden, respiratory disease is a common necropsy finding in chickens from such flocks.
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