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Growth kinetics and transmission potential of existing and emerging field strains of infectious laryngotracheitis virus.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Lee Sang-Won, Hartley Carol A, Coppo Mauricio J C, Vaz Paola K, Legione Alistair R, Quinteros José A, Noormohammadi Amir H, Markham Phillip F, Browning Glenn F, Devlin Joanne M
Abstract excerpt
Attenuated live infectious laryngotracheitis virus (ILTV) vaccines are widely used in the poultry industry to control outbreaks of disease. Natural recombination between commercial ILTV vaccines has resulted in virulent recombinant viruses that cause severe disease, and that have now emerged as the dominant field strains in important poultry producing regions in Australia. Genotype analysis using PCR-restriction...
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