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Development and application of a TaqMan single nucleotide polymorphism genotyping assay to study infectious laryngotracheitis virus recombination in the natural host.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2017
Loncoman Carlos A, Hartley Carol A, Coppo Mauricio J C, Vaz Paola K, Diaz-Méndez Andrés, Browning Glenn F, Lee Sang-Won, Devlin Joanne M
Abstract excerpt
To date, recombination between different strains of the avian alphaherpesvirus infectious laryngotracheitis virus (ILTV) has only been detected in field samples using full genome sequencing and sequence analysis. These previous studies have revealed that natural recombination is widespread in ILTV and have demonstrated that recombination between two attenuated ILTV vaccine strains generated highly virulent...
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