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Article on Avian influenza virus, contributed by Jason Long of Imperial College London

Joining existing pages:

NDV & other paramyxoviruses, contributed by Kiril M. Dimitrov, Patti J. Miller and Claudio L. Afonso

Infectious bronchitis virus (IBV), contributed by Helena Maier

Chicken anaemia virus, contributed by Stathis Giotis

Avipoxviruses, contributed by Mike Skinner

Marek’s disease virus, contributed by Prof Venugopal Nair

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“Identification of a European interserotypic reassortant strain of infectious bursal disease virus” reported by Soubies et al. in Avian Pathology.

Not particularly recent but check out a  2013 issue of Developmental & Comparative Immunology on “Chicken Immunity“, which includes reviews on aspects of innate and viral immunity.

A new paper, on the “Presence of Vaccine-Derived Newcastle Disease Viruses in Wild Birds” by the contributors to our recent page on NDV, is reviewed on TWiV in episode 411 (“Chicken runs”).

Article on NDV & other paramyxoviruses, contributed by Kiril M. Dimitrov, Patti J. Miller and Claudio L. Afonso of the US National Poultry Research Center, Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory in Athens, Georgia, USA.

Joining existing pages:

Infectious bronchitis virus (IBV), contributed by Helena Maier

Chicken anaemia virus, contributed by Stathis Giotis

Avipoxviruses, contributed by Mike Skinner

Marek’s disease virus, contributed by Prof Venugopal Nair

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ENSEMBL has included latest annotated chicken genome assembly (Galgal5) in its October release (86).

Veterinary Vaccinology Network Third Annual Conference 16-17 January 2017, Belfast

Congratulations to Carina Conceicao of the Roslin Institute for winning the Journal of General Virology prize at the Avian Virus meeting for her poster ‘Morphology of avian influenza A virus‘, and thanks to all those who presented their fantastic posters in a competitive field.

The Poultry Health Course run by The Pirbright Institute and The University of Nottingham is open for applications for the Spring 2017 residential course. This year’s online course started on 3rd Oct.