Article
Evolution of avian encephalomyelitis virus during embryo-adaptation.
Veterinary microbiology - 1 May 2017
Hauck Rüdiger, Sentíes-Cué C Gabriel, Wang Ying, Kern Colin, Shivaprasad H L, Zhou Huaijun, Gallardo Rodrigo A
Abstract excerpt
Wild-type avian encephalomyelitis virus (AEV) causes neurological signs in young chicks but no disease in pullets after oral or intracutaneous infection. However, if the virus gets embryo-adapted by serial passaging in chicken embryos, it will cause AE after intracutaneous infection in chickens of all ages. Recently, several cases of AE in layer pullets occurring shortly after intracutaneous vaccination were...
Topics
- Adaptation, Physiological
- Animals
- Capsid Proteins
- Chick Embryo
- Chickens
- Encephalomyelitis Virus, Avian
- Evolution, Molecular
- Female
- Gene Expression Regulation, Viral
- Mutation
- Picornaviridae Infections
