Article
Marek’s Disease in Broiler Farms, Iran, 2021: The Phylogenetic Study
2023-04-07
Abstract excerpt
Marek's disease virus (MDV) is a highly cell-associated oncogenic alphaherpesvirus that causes T cell lymphoma in chickens. MD is currently controlled by vaccination; however, MDV strains tend to develop increased virulence. Distinct diversity and point mutations are present in the Meq proteins, the major oncoproteins of MDV, suggesting that changes in protein function induced by amino acid substitutions might aff...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 6f74e59d-32a9-5898-a1ce-02ace8bbc66b
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- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2780272/v1
