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Comparison of genomic and antigenic properties of Newcastle Disease virus genotypes II, XXI and VII from Egypt do not point to antigenic drift as selection marker.
Transboundary and emerging diseases - 1 Mar 2022
Naguib Mahmoud M, Höper Dirk, Elkady Magdy F, Afifi Manal A, Erfan Ahmed, Abozeid Hassanein H, Hasan Wafaa M, Arafa Abdel-Satar, Shahein Momtaz, Beer Martin, Harder Timm C, Grund Christian
Abstract excerpt
Newcastle disease (ND), caused by avian orthoavulavirus type-1 (NDV), is endemic in poultry in many regions of the world and causes continuing outbreaks in poultry populations. In the Middle East, genotype XXI, used to be present in poultry in Egypt but has been replaced by genotype VII. We inves...
Topics
- Animals
- Antigenic Drift and Shift
- Chickens
- Egypt
- Genomics
- Genotype
- Newcastle Disease
- Newcastle disease virus
- Phylogeny