Quantitative profiling of the shedding rate of the three Marek's disease virus (MDV) serotypes reveals that challenge with virulent MDV markedly increases shedding of vaccinal viruses

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 88, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2121-2128

  Islam, Aminul ^a,b   Walkden Brown, Stephen W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b JOHN HUNTER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAREK DISEASE VACCINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; AVIAN LYMPHOMATOSIS HERPETOVIRUS; BIRD DISEASE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DANDER; DUST; EXHAUST GAS; FEATHER; HERPES VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTYPE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TURKEY (BIRD); VACCINIA VIRUS; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS SHEDDING; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CHICKENS; DNA, VIRAL; FEATHERS; FEMALE; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; MARDIVIRUS; MAREK DISEASE; MAREK DISEASE VACCINES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; VACCINATION; VIRUS SHEDDING;

GALLID HERPESVIRUS 2; GALLUS GALLUS; MELEAGRID HERPESVIRUS 1;

EID: 34547583509     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.82969-0     Document Type: Article

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