title: Horizontal transmission of turkey herpesvirus to chickens. IV. Viral maturation in the feather follicle epithelium.
abstract: An experimental line of White Leghorns (WSU-VS) and a commerical line inoculated with turkey herpesvirus (HVT) at 1 or 8 weeks old did not differ in the occurrence of infectious cell-free HVT in their feather-tip preparations (FT-HVT). The birds examined at 2 weeks postinoculation (PI) were always positive for FT-HVT regardless of age at virus inoculation, dose of HVT inoculated, or genetic line of chickens, whereas only a few were positive at 4 weeks and none at 6 weeks PI.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001769:Blood / Q000382:microbiology; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D002642:Chick Embryo; D002645:Chickens; D004848:Epithelium / Q000382:microbiology; D005241:Feathers / Q000382:microbiology*; D005347:Fibroblasts; D006564:Herpesviridae / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006566:Herpesviridae Infections / Q000382:microbiology / Q000635:transmission / Q000662:veterinary*; D007279:Injections, Subcutaneous; D011201:Poultry Diseases / Q000382:microbiology / Q000635:transmission*; D011234:Precipitins; D013997:Time Factors; D014422:Turkeys
chemical_list: D011234:Precipitins