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  • Communication
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,944 Views
8 Pages

IFNα and IFNγ Impede Marek’s Disease Progression

  • Luca D. Bertzbach,
  • Olof Harlin,
  • Sonja Härtle,
  • Frank Fehler,
  • Tereza Vychodil,
  • Benedikt B. Kaufer and
  • Bernd Kaspers

28 November 2019

Marek’s disease virus (MDV) is an alphaherpesvirus that causes Marek’s disease, a malignant lymphoproliferative disease of domestic chickens. While MDV vaccines protect animals from clinical disease, they do not provide sterilizing immuni...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,289 Views
18 Pages

Role of T Cells in Vaccine-Mediated Immunity against Marek’s Disease

  • Mohammad Heidari,
  • Huanmin Zhang,
  • Lakshmi T Sunkara and
  • Syed Mudasir Ahmad

28 February 2023

Marek’s disease virus (MDV), a highly cell-associated oncogenic α-herpesvirus, is the etiological agent of T cell lymphomas and neuropathic disease in chickens known as Marek’s disease (MD). Clinical signs of MD include neurological...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
7,337 Views
15 Pages

Co-Infection with Marek’s Disease Virus and Reticuloendotheliosis Virus Increases Illness Severity and Reduces Marek’s Disease Vaccine Efficacy

  • Guo-Rong Sun,
  • Yan-Ping Zhang,
  • Lin-Yi Zhou,
  • Hong-Chao Lv,
  • Feng Zhang,
  • Kai Li,
  • Yu-Long Gao,
  • Xiao-Le Qi,
  • Hong-Yu Cui and
  • Yong-Qiang Wang
  • + 4 authors

21 June 2017

Marek’s disease virus (MDV) and reticuloendotheliosis virus (REV) cause Marek’s disease (MD) and reticuloendotheliosis (RE), respectively. Co-infection with MDV and REV is common in chickens, causing serious losses to the poultry industry. However, e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,053 Views
15 Pages

16 February 2021

Marek’s disease virus (MDV) is a highly contagious alphaherpesvirus that causes rapid onset lymphoma in chickens. Marek’s disease (MD) is effectively controlled using vaccination; however, MDV continues to break through vaccinal immunity, due to the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,919 Views
12 Pages

Characterization of a Very Short Meq Protein Isoform in a Marek’s Disease Virus Strain in Japan

  • Yoshinosuke Motai,
  • Shiro Murata,
  • Jumpei Sato,
  • Akihito Nishi,
  • Naoya Maekawa,
  • Tomohiro Okagawa,
  • Satoru Konnai and
  • Kazuhiko Ohashi

20 January 2024

Marek’s disease virus (MDV) causes malignant lymphoma (Marek’s disease; MD) in chickens. The Meq protein is essential for tumorigenesis since it regulates the expression of host and viral genes. Previously, we reported that the deletion o...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,801 Views
10 Pages

The Regulatory Microenvironment in Feathers of Chickens Infected with Very Virulent Marek’s Disease Virus

  • Jegarubee Bavananthasivam,
  • Nadiyah Alqazlan,
  • Mohammadali Alizadeh,
  • Ayumi Matsuyama-Kato,
  • Jake Astill,
  • Raveendra R. Kulkarni and
  • Shayan Sharif

9 January 2022

Vaccines against Marek’s disease can protect chickens against clinical disease; however, infected chickens continue to propagate the Marek’s disease virus (MDV) in feather follicles and can shed the virus into the environment. Therefore,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,633 Views
13 Pages

5 February 2019

Marek’s Disease is a lymphoproliferative disease of chickens caused by Marek’s Disease Virus. Similar to other herpesviruses, Marek’s Disease Virus (MDV) encodes its own small non-coding regulatory RNAs termed microRNAs (miRNAs). We...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,305 Views
15 Pages

13 May 2025

Marek’s disease (MD) is a highly contagious and oncogenic viral disease of poultry, causing significant economic losses due to mortality and reduced performance. The rapid evolution of Marek’s disease virus (MDV) has been reported in poul...

  • Review
  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,244 Views
14 Pages

A Review on the Marek’s Disease Outbreak and Its Virulence-Related meq Genovariation in Asia between 2011 and 2021

  • Baolin Song,
  • Jehan Zeb,
  • Sabir Hussain,
  • Muhammad Umair Aziz,
  • Elena Circella,
  • Gaia Casalino,
  • Antonio Camarda,
  • Guan Yang,
  • Nicolas Buchon and
  • Olivier Sparagano

22 February 2022

Marek’s disease is an infectious disease in poultry that usually appears in neural and visceral tumors. This disease is caused by Gallid alphaherpesvirus 2 infection in lymphocytes, and its meq gene is commonly used in virulent studies for codi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,515 Views
30 Pages

22 February 2023

Marek’s disease (MD) is a lymphoproliferative disease of chickens induced by Marek’s disease virus (MDV), an oncogenic α-herpesvirus. MDV has increased in virulence, prompting continued efforts in both improved vaccines and enhanced...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,662 Views
16 Pages

Marek’s Disease Virus Infection Induced Mitochondria Changes in Chickens

  • Qin Chu,
  • Yi Ding,
  • Wentao Cai,
  • Lei Liu,
  • Huanmin Zhang and
  • Jiuzhou Song

Mitochondria are crucial cellular organelles in eukaryotes and participate in many cell processes including immune response, growth development, and tumorigenesis. Marek’s disease (MD), caused by an avian alpha-herpesvirus Marek’s disease...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,239 Views
10 Pages

Morphological and Immunohistochemical Examination of Lymphoproliferative Lesions Caused by Marek’s Disease Virus in Breeder Chickens

  • Alessandro Stamilla,
  • Antonino Messina,
  • Lucia Condorelli,
  • Francesca Licitra,
  • Francesco Antoci,
  • Massimiliano Lanza,
  • Guido Ruggero Loria,
  • Giuseppe Cascone and
  • Roberto Puleio

27 July 2020

Marek’s disease is widely controlled by vaccination programs; however, chickens are not totally protected, especially immediately after the vaccination when a strong challenge could interfere with the effectiveness of vaccination in the absence...

  • Review
  • Open Access
72 Citations
13,111 Views
11 Pages

Latest Insights into Marek’s Disease Virus Pathogenesis and Tumorigenesis

  • Luca D. Bertzbach,
  • Andelé M. Conradie,
  • Yu You and
  • Benedikt B. Kaufer

10 March 2020

Marek’s disease virus (MDV) infects chickens and causes one of the most frequent cancers in animals. Over 100 years of research on this oncogenic alphaherpesvirus has led to a profound understanding of virus-induced tumor development. Live-attenuated...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,398 Views
7 Pages

Vitamin Compatibility with the Marek’s Disease Vaccine

  • Seyed Abolghasem Fatemi,
  • Christopher J. Williams,
  • Joshua Deines and
  • Edgar David Peebles

25 September 2023

In ovo injection of the Marek’s disease (MD) vaccine (MDV) has been widely practiced in commercial US hatcheries. However, the MDV is very sensitive and may not be compatible with some nutrients when administered together by in ovo injection. W...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,103 Views
11 Pages

First Report of Marek’s Disease Virus in Commercial Turkeys in Slovenia

  • Zoran Žlabravec,
  • Brigita Slavec,
  • Ema Rožmanec,
  • Saša Koprivec,
  • Alenka Dovč and
  • Olga Zorman Rojs

12 January 2024

Marek’s disease (MD), caused by Mardivirus gallidalpha 2 (GaAHV-2), also known as MD virus (MDV), is a lymphoproliferative disease that primarily affects chickens. Recently, MDV has been detected in lymphomatous tumors in turkeys in various cou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,698 Views
16 Pages

Effect of Insertion and Deletion in the Meq Protein Encoded by Highly Oncogenic Marek’s Disease Virus on Transactivation Activity and Virulence

  • Jumpei Sato,
  • Shiro Murata,
  • Zhiyuan Yang,
  • Benedikt B. Kaufer,
  • Sotaro Fujisawa,
  • Hikari Seo,
  • Naoya Maekawa,
  • Tomohiro Okagawa,
  • Satoru Konnai and
  • Nikolaus Osterrieder
  • + 2 authors

14 February 2022

Marek’s disease virus (MDV) causes malignant lymphoma in chickens (Marek’s disease, MD). Although MD is currently controlled by vaccination, MDV strains have continuously increased in virulence over the recent decades. Polymorphisms in Me...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,193 Views
17 Pages

Herpesviruses are a group of double-strand DNA viruses that infect a wide range of hosts, including humans and animals. In the past decades, numerous methods have been developed to manipulate herpesviruses genomes, from the introduction of random mut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,376 Views
14 Pages

Characterization of Copy Number Variation’s Potential Role in Marek’s Disease

  • Lingyang Xu,
  • Yanghua He,
  • Yi Ding,
  • Guirong Sun,
  • Jose Adrian Carrillo,
  • Yaokun Li,
  • Mona M. Ghaly,
  • Li Ma,
  • Huanmin Zhang and
  • George E. Liu
  • + 1 author

Marek’s Disease (MD) is a highly contagious pathogenic and oncogenic disease primarily affecting chickens. Chicken Lines 63 and 72, as well as their recombinant congenic strains (RCS) with varied susceptibility to MD, are ideal models to study the co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,659 Views
23 Pages

Epigenetic Silencing of MicroRNA-126 Promotes Cell Growth in Marek’s Disease

  • Isabelle Gennart,
  • Astrid Petit,
  • Laetitia Wiggers,
  • Srđan Pejaković,
  • Nicolas Dauchot,
  • Sylvie Laurent,
  • Damien Coupeau and
  • Benoît Muylkens

During latency, herpesvirus infection results in the establishment of a dormant state in which a restricted set of viral genes are expressed. Together with alterations of the viral genome, several host genes undergo epigenetic silencing during latenc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,193 Views
11 Pages

Marek’s disease (MD) is a ubiquitous disease of domesticated chickens and its etiologic agent is the Gallid alphaherpesvirus 2 (GaHV-2), also known as Marek’s disease virus (MDV). MD is currently controlled by vaccination using live atten...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,449 Views
16 Pages

Marek’s Disease Virus Regulates the Ubiquitylome of Chicken CD4+ T Cells to Promote Tumorigenesis

  • Xiaolu Zhou,
  • Shanli Wu,
  • Hongda Zhou,
  • Mengyun Wang,
  • Menghan Wang,
  • Yan Lü,
  • Zhongyi Cheng,
  • Jiacui Xu and
  • Yongxing Ai

Ubiquitination and deubiquitination of cellular proteins are reciprocal reactions catalyzed by ubiquitination-related enzymes and deubiquitinase (DUB) which regulate almost all cellular processes. Marek’s disease virus (MDV) encodes a viral DUB...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,960 Views
17 Pages

Macrophages from Susceptible and Resistant Chicken Lines have Different Transcriptomes following Marek’s Disease Virus Infection

  • Pankaj Chakraborty,
  • Richard Kuo,
  • Lonneke Vervelde,
  • Bernadette M. Dutia,
  • Pete Kaiser and
  • Jacqueline Smith

22 January 2019

Despite successful control by vaccination, Marek’s disease (MD) has continued evolving to greater virulence over recent years. To control MD, selection and breeding of MD-resistant chickens might be a suitable option. MHC-congenic inbred chicken line...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,697 Views
24 Pages

Activated Chicken Gamma Delta T Cells Are Involved in Protective Immunity against Marek’s Disease

  • Ayumi Matsuyama-Kato,
  • Bahram Shojadoost,
  • Nitish Boodhoo,
  • Sugandha Raj,
  • Mohammadali Alizadeh,
  • Fatemeh Fazel,
  • Charlotte Fletcher,
  • Jiayu Zheng,
  • Bhavya Gupta and
  • Mohamed Faizal Abdul-Careem
  • + 3 authors

19 January 2023

Gamma delta (γδ) T cells play a significant role in the prevention of viral infection and tumor surveillance in mammals. Although the involvement of γδ T cells in Marek’s disease virus (MDV) infection has been suggested,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,125 Views
35 Pages

The Meq Genes of Nigerian Marek’s Disease Virus (MDV) Field Isolates Contain Mutations Common to Both European and US High Virulence Strains

  • Joseph N. Patria,
  • Luka Jwander,
  • Ifeoma Mbachu,
  • Levi Parcells,
  • Brian Ladman,
  • Jakob Trimpert,
  • Benedikt B. Kaufer,
  • Phaedra Tavlarides-Hontz and
  • Mark S. Parcells

31 December 2024

Background: Marek’s disease (MD) is a pathology affecting chickens caused by Marek’s disease virus (MDV), an acute transforming alphaherpesvirus of the genus Mardivirus. MD is characterized by paralysis, immune suppression, and the rapid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,783 Views
16 Pages

Phenotypic Characterization of Recombinant Marek’s Disease Virus in Live Birds Validates Polymorphisms Associated with Virulence

  • Taejoong Kim,
  • Cari J. Hearn,
  • Jody Mays,
  • Deborah Velez-Irizarry,
  • Sanjay M. Reddy,
  • Stephen J. Spatz,
  • Hans H. Cheng and
  • John R. Dunn

16 November 2023

Marek’s disease (MD) is a highly infectious lymphoproliferative disease in chickens with a significant economic impact. Mardivirus gallidalpha 2, also known as Marek’s disease virus (MDV), is the causative pathogen and has been categorize...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,743 Views
15 Pages

Identification and Validation of Ikaros (IKZF1) as a Cancer Driver Gene for Marek’s Disease Virus-Induced Lymphomas

  • Alec Steep,
  • Evin Hildebrandt,
  • Hongen Xu,
  • Cari Hearn,
  • Dmitrij Frishman,
  • Masahiro Niikura,
  • John R. Dunn,
  • Taejoong Kim,
  • Steven J. Conrad and
  • William M. Muir
  • + 1 author

Marek’s disease virus (MDV) is the causative agent for Marek’s disease (MD), which is characterized by T-cell lymphomas in chickens. While the viral Meq oncogene is necessary for transformation, it is insufficient, as not every bird infec...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,040 Views
12 Pages

30 July 2020

Marek’s disease virus is an economically important avian herpesvirus that causes tumors and immunosuppression in chickens and turkeys. The virus, disease, and vaccines have been known for more than 50 years, but as knowledge gaps still exists,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,241 Views
22 Pages

A Marek’s Disease Virus Messenger RNA-Based Vaccine Modulates Local and Systemic Immune Responses in Chickens

  • Fatemeh Fazel,
  • Ayumi Matsuyama-Kato,
  • Mohammadali Alizadeh,
  • Jiayu Zheng,
  • Charlotte Fletcher,
  • Bhavya Gupta,
  • Myles St-Denis,
  • Nitish Boodhoo and
  • Shayan Sharif

18 July 2024

Marek’s disease (MD), caused by the Marek’s disease virus, is a lymphoproliferative disease in chickens that can be controlled by vaccination. However, the current vaccines can limit tumor growth and death but not virus replication and tr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,471 Views
16 Pages

Emerging Hypervirulent Marek’s Disease Virus Variants Significantly Overcome Protection Conferred by Commercial Vaccines

  • Jin-Ling Liu,
  • Man Teng,
  • Lu-Ping Zheng,
  • Feng-Xia Zhu,
  • Shu-Xue Ma,
  • Lin-Yan Li,
  • Zhi-Hui Zhang,
  • Shu-Jun Chai,
  • Yongxiu Yao and
  • Jun Luo

25 June 2023

As one of the most important avian immunosuppressive and neoplastic diseases, Marek’s disease (MD), caused by oncogenic Marek’s disease virus (MDV), has caused huge economic losses worldwide over the past five decades. In recent years, MD...

  • Article
  • Open Access
770 Views
13 Pages

Comprehensive Analysis of Liver Transcriptome and Metabolome Response to Oncogenic Marek’s Disease Virus Infection in Wenchang Chickens

  • Lifeng Zhi,
  • Xiangdong Xu,
  • Yang Zeng,
  • Wenquan Qin,
  • Ganghua Li,
  • Junming Zhao,
  • Runfeng Zhang and
  • Guang Rong

25 July 2025

Marek’s disease (MD), induced by the highly contagious Marek’s disease virus (MDV), remains a significant challenge to global poultry health despite extensive vaccination efforts. This study employed integrated transcriptomic and metabolo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,656 Views
20 Pages

Rolling-Translated circRUNX2.2 Promotes Lymphoma Cell Proliferation and Cycle Transition in Marek’s Disease Model

  • Lulu Wang,
  • Gang Zheng,
  • Yuqin Yang,
  • Junfeng Wu,
  • Yushuang Du,
  • Jiahua Chen,
  • Changjun Liu,
  • Yongzhen Liu,
  • Bo Zhang and
  • Hao Zhang
  • + 2 authors

25 October 2024

Marek’s disease (MD), an immunosuppressive disease induced by the Marek’s disease virus (MDV), is regarded as an ideal model for lymphoma research to elucidate oncogenic and anti-oncogene genes. Using this model, we found that circRUNX2.2...

  • Review
  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,735 Views
13 Pages

Telomeres and Telomerase: Role in Marek’s Disease Virus Pathogenesis, Integration and Tumorigenesis

  • Ahmed Kheimar,
  • Renato L. Previdelli,
  • Darren J. Wight and
  • Benedikt B. Kaufer

4 July 2017

Telomeres protect the ends of vertebrate chromosomes from deterioration and consist of tandem nucleotide repeats (TTAGGG)n that are associated with a number of proteins. Shortening of the telomeres occurs during genome replication, thereby limiting t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,210 Views
17 Pages

Allele-Specific Expression of CD4+ T Cells in Response to Marek’s Disease Virus Infection

  • Hao Bai,
  • Yanghua He,
  • Yi Ding,
  • José A. Carrillo,
  • Ramesh K. Selvaraj,
  • Huanmin Zhang,
  • Jilan Chen and
  • Jiuzhou Song

17 September 2019

Marek’s disease (MD) is a T cell lymphoma disease induced by Marek’s disease virus (MDV), a highly oncogenic α herpesvirus primarily affecting chickens. MD is a chronic infectious disease that threatens the poultry industry. However...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,432 Views
10 Pages

Antiviral Effect of Lithium Chloride on Replication of Marek’s Disease Virus in Chicken Embryonic Fibroblasts

  • Huifeng He,
  • Dandan Qiao,
  • Lu Zhang,
  • Yongxiu Yao,
  • Hongxia Shao,
  • Aijian Qin and
  • Kun Qian

16 November 2021

To investigate the antiviral effect of lithium chloride (LiCl) on the replication of Marek’s disease virus (MDV) in chicken embryonic fibroblast (CEF) cells, real-time PCR, Western blotting, plaque counting, and indirect immunofluorescence experiment...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
6,935 Views
11 Pages

A Chinese Variant Marek’s Disease Virus Strain with Divergence between Virulence and Vaccine Resistance

  • Guo-rong Sun,
  • Yan-ping Zhang,
  • Hong-chao Lv,
  • Lin-yi Zhou,
  • Hong-yu Cui,
  • Yu-long Gao,
  • Xiao-le Qi,
  • Yong-qiang Wang,
  • Kai Li and
  • Li Gao
  • + 3 authors

3 April 2017

Marek’s disease (MD) virus (MDV) has been evolving continuously, leading to increasing vaccination failure. Here, the MDV field strain BS/15 was isolated from a severely diseased Chinese chicken flock previously vaccinated with CVI988. To explore the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,073 Views
16 Pages

Programmed Cell Death-1 Expression in T-Cell Subsets in Chickens Infected with Marek’s Disease Virus

  • Jumpei Sato,
  • Yoshinosuke Motai,
  • Shunsuke Yamagami,
  • Shwe Yee Win,
  • Fumiya Horio,
  • Hikaru Saeki,
  • Naoya Maekawa,
  • Tomohiro Okagawa,
  • Satoru Konnai and
  • Kazuhiko Ohashi
  • + 1 author

Marek’s disease virus (MDV) causes Marek’s disease (MD) in chickens, characterized by malignant lymphomas and immunosuppression. Sporadic MD outbreaks continue to occur even among vaccinated flocks in certain regions due to the increased...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,790 Views
15 Pages

Safety and Efficacy Evaluation of Recombinant Marek’s Disease Virus with REV-LTR

  • Cuiping Song,
  • Yang Yang,
  • Jing Hu,
  • Shengqing Yu,
  • Yingjie Sun,
  • Xvsheng Qiu,
  • Lei Tan,
  • Chunchun Meng,
  • Ying Liao and
  • Weiwei Liu
  • + 1 author

Recently, chickens vaccinated with the CVI988/Rispens vaccine showed increased tumor incidence. Moreover, many strains of Marek’s disease virus (MDV) that were naturally integrated with the long terminal repeat (LTR) of the avian reticuloendoth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,838 Views
30 Pages

Comparison of the Transcriptomes and Proteomes of Serum Exosomes from Marek’s Disease Virus-Vaccinated and Protected and Lymphoma-Bearing Chickens

  • Sabari Nath Neerukonda,
  • Phaedra Tavlarides-Hontz,
  • Fiona McCarthy,
  • Kenneth Pendarvis and
  • Mark S. Parcells

5 February 2019

Marek’s disease virus (MDV) is the causative agent of Marek’s disease (MD), a complex pathology of chickens characterized by paralysis, immunosuppression, and T-cell lymphomagenesis. MD is controlled in poultry production via vaccines adm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
629 Views
29 Pages

Amino Acid Polymorphisms in the Basic Region of Meq of Vaccine Strain CVI988 Drastically Diminish the Virulence of Marek’s Disease Virus

  • Jumpei Sato,
  • Yoshinosuke Motai,
  • Shunsuke Yamagami,
  • Aoi Kurokawa,
  • Shwe Yee Win,
  • Fumiya Horio,
  • Hikaru Saeki,
  • Naoya Maekawa,
  • Tomohiro Okagawa and
  • Satoru Konnai
  • + 2 authors

26 June 2025

Marek’s disease virus (MDV) is the etiological agent of Marek’s disease (MD), a lymphoproliferative disorder in chickens. Polymorphisms in the MDV-encoded oncoprotein Meq are shared among field strains and correlate with their virulence....

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,206 Views
15 Pages

20 December 2022

Marek’s disease virus (MDV) infection results in Marek’s disease (MD) in chickens, a lymphoproliferative and oncogenic deadly disease, leading to severe economic losses. The spleen and bursa are the most important lymphoid and major targe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,594 Views
10 Pages

The Role of Marek’s Disease Virus UL12 and UL29 in DNA Recombination and the Virus Lifecycle

  • Renato L. Previdelli,
  • Luca D. Bertzbach,
  • Darren J. Wight,
  • Tereza Vychodil,
  • Yu You,
  • Sina Arndt and
  • Benedikt B. Kaufer

28 January 2019

Marek’s disease virus (MDV) is an oncogenic alphaherpesvirus that infects chickens and integrates its genome into the telomeres of latently infected cells. MDV encodes two proteins, UL12 and UL29 (ICP8), that are conserved among herpesviruses and cou...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
872 Views
9 Pages

3 June 2025

Mortality from Marek’s disease virus (MDV) infection results in economic loss for the poultry industry. It is controlled by vaccination, but the virus mutates and becomes more virulent. Variation within the MHC is well known to impact the outco...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,913 Views
12 Pages

Inhibition of Marek’s Disease Virus Replication and Spread by 25-hydroxycholesterol and 27-hydroxycholesterol In Vitro

  • Nitin Kamble,
  • Vishwanatha R. A. P. Reddy,
  • Ben Jackson,
  • Faisal R. Anjum,
  • Chidiebere C. Ubachukwu,
  • Ajit Patil and
  • Shahriar Behboudi

29 July 2023

Marek’s disease virus (MDV) causes a deadly lymphoproliferative disease in chickens, resulting in huge economic losses in the poultry industry. It has been suggested that MDV suppresses the induction of type I interferons and thus escapes immun...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,340 Views
16 Pages

12 September 2022

The importance of the bursa of Fabricius (BF) for the pathogenesis of Marek’s disease (MD) has been studied since the late 1960’s. In this review, the results of these studies are analyzed in the context of the developing knowledge of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,721 Views
12 Pages

24 September 2020

Marek’s disease (MD) is a lymphoproliferative disease in chickens caused by Marek’s disease virus (MDV), a highly oncogenic alphaherpesvirus. Since 1970, MD has been controlled through widespread vaccination of commercial flocks. However,...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,561 Views
7 Pages

Promyelocytic leukemia protein nuclear bodies (PML-NBs) are dynamic nuclear structures, shown to be important for herpesvirus replication; however, their role in regulating Marek’s disease virus (MDV) infection has not been studied. MDV is an oncogen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,454 Views
20 Pages

18 March 2020

Marek’s disease is a major scourge challenging poultry health worldwide. It is caused by the highly contagious Marek’s disease virus (MDV), an alphaherpesvirus. Here, we showed that, similar to other members of its Herpesviridae family, M...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,750 Views
13 Pages

Dynamic Changes in Viral Loads during Co-Infection with a Recombinant Turkey Herpesvirus Vector Vaccine and Very Virulent Marek’s Disease Virus In Vivo

  • Tian Ding,
  • Min Xiong,
  • Yang Xu,
  • Xing Pu,
  • Qin-sen Wang,
  • Mo-ru Xu,
  • Hong-xia Shao,
  • Kun Qian,
  • Hai-bin Dang and
  • Ai-jian Qin

27 June 2024

Marek’s disease (MD), caused by the Marek’s disease virus (MDV), is a common infectious tumor disease in chickens and was the first neoplastic disease preventable by vaccination. However, the vaccine cannot completely prevent virulent MDV...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,877 Views
17 Pages

14 February 2025

Marek’s disease (MD), characterized by the rapid onset of T-cell lymphomas in chickens, is caused by Mardivirus gallidalpha2, an oncogenic alphaherpesvirus commonly known as Marek’s disease virus (MDV). MDV encodes a bZIP protein, Meq, wh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,581 Views
17 Pages

In Vivo Inhibition of Marek’s Disease Virus in Transgenic Chickens Expressing Cas9 and gRNA against ICP4

  • Arjun Challagulla,
  • Kristie A. Jenkins,
  • Terri E. O’Neil,
  • Shunning Shi,
  • Kirsten R. Morris,
  • Terry G. Wise,
  • Prasad N. Paradkar,
  • Mark L. Tizard,
  • Timothy J. Doran and
  • Karel A. Schat

Marek’s disease (MD), caused by MD herpesvirus (MDV), is an economically important disease in chickens. The efficacy of the existing vaccines against evolving virulent stains may become limited and necessitates the development of novel antivira...

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