Article by Ian Barr & Frank Wong on Avian influenza in the November edition of the Microbiology Society’s “Microbiology Today”.
New page on Avian influenza virus
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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IBDV: European interserotypic reassortant
“Identification of a European interserotypic reassortant strain of infectious bursal disease virus” reported by Soubies et al. in Avian Pathology.
Immunology
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.
New JGV paper reports an important role for the Influenza A small accessory protein PB1-F2 in virus transmission
Influenza A virus PB1-F2 protein prolongs viral shedding in chickens lengthening the transmission window
James J et al, J. Gen. Virol., October 2016 97: 2516-2527, doi: 10.1099/jgv.0.000584
Read the paper from Journal of General Virology
New NDV paper reviewed on TWiV
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”).
New page on NDV & other paramyxoviruses
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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Galgal5 in ENSEMBL’s October release
ENSEMBL has included latest annotated chicken genome assembly (Galgal5) in its October release (86).
Veterinary Vaccinology Network Conference
Veterinary Vaccinology Network Third Annual Conference 16-17 January 2017, Belfast
Avian Virus Meeting Poster Prize Winner
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.