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Studies leading to sustainable strategies for the control of Marek's disease: is vaccination responsible for virulence evolution in Marek's disease?

Reference	BBS/E/I/00001275
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Venugopal Nair
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors
Institution	The Pirbright Institute
Department	The Pirbright Institute Department
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	263,994
Status	Completed
Type	Institute Project
Start date	14/05/2007
End date	13/05/2010
Duration	36 months

Abstract

The objectives of this project are to provide the experimental data necessary to understand (i) the evolutionary pressures which made Marek's disease virus more virulent over the second half of last century, and particularly to test whether vaccination drove this evolution, (ii) to predict future evolutionary directions for a variety of MDV control measures (risk assessment), and (iii) to identify the key biological features of the MDV-chicken interaction which have resulted in virulence evolution to determine whether any other diseases might also increase in virulence in response to vaccination or other control measures.

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Committee	Closed Committee - Animal Sciences (AS)
Research Topics	Animal Health, Immunology, Microbiology
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	X - not in an Initiative
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

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