Genetic Diversity of Newcastle Disease Virus and Its Implications for Vaccine Development

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The Newcastle disease virus (NDV), an avian paramyxovirus, induces the highly contagious Newcastle disease in poultry. Newcastle disease outbreaks, common in many developing countries, have been recorded worldwide for a century. Poultry, even vaccinated stocks, together with wild and synanthropic birds, serve as reservoirs of NDV. Despite the extensive use of commercial NDV vaccines, Newcastle disease outbreaks...

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