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Horizontal transmission of Marek's disease virus requires US2, the UL13 protein kinase, and gC.
Journal of virology - 1 Oct 2007
Jarosinski Keith W, Margulis Neil G, Kamil Jeremy P, Spatz Stephen J, Nair Venugopal K, Osterrieder Nikolaus
Abstract excerpt
Marek's disease virus (MDV) causes a general malaise in chickens that is mostly characterized by the development of lymphoblastoid tumors in multiple organs. The use of bacterial artificial chromosomes (BACs) for cloning and manipulation of the MDV genome has facilitated characterization of specific genes and genomic regions. The development of most MDV BACs, including pRB-1B-5, derived from a very virulent MDV...
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