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J Virol Methods ; 296: 114229, 2021 10.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34245790

ABSTRACT

The enveloped flavivirus Israel turkey meningoencephalitis virus (ITV) causes a neuroparalytic disease in adult turkeys leading to morbidity and mortality. This study reevaluates the role of blood-sucking insects in the transmission of ITV. We demonstrate the crucial importance of two factors in detecting viruses carried by blood-sucking insects: first, enhanced molecular detection of ITV in insects by nested qRT-PCR and second, collection and maintenance of live insects until their molecular examination. These upgrades allowed overcoming the small virus quantities contained in the insects and detecting ITV for the first time in field-collected Culex pipiens.


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Culex , Flavivirus , Animals , Flavivirus/genetics , Polymerase Chain Reaction , Turkeys
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Avian Pathol ; 46(3): 256-264, 2017 Jun.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27807983

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The avian flavivirus Turkey Meningoencephalitis Virus (TMEV) causes a neuroparalytic disease of commercial turkeys, expressed in paresis, incoordination, drooping wings and mortality that is controlled by vaccination. The molecular diagnosis using brain tissue RNA has now been upgraded by the development of a diagnostic dual-gene multiplex real-time PCR targeting the envelope and the non-structural NS5 gene, increasing the sensitivity by 10-100-fold compared to the previously existing assays. Based on the recent complete sequences of five TMEV isolates we have now developed a Differentiating Infected from Vaccinated Animals (DIVA) assay, to distinguish between wild-type TMEV strains and the vaccine virus. The DIVA assay was evaluated on commercial vaccines produced by two manufacturers, on RNA purified from brains of experimentally infected turkeys with TMEV strains, and on clinical samples collected between the years 2009 and 2015. We also investigated turkey feather pulps for their suitability to serve for TMEV detection, to avoid invasive sampling and bird killing. The parallel TMEV diagnosis in brain and feather-pulp RNA were similarly useful for diagnosis, at least in experimentally infected turkeys and in three cases of disease encountered in commercial flocks.


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Flavivirus/isolation & purification , Meningoencephalitis/veterinary , Poultry Diseases/diagnosis , Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction/veterinary , Turkeys/virology , Animals , Brain/virology , Feathers/virology , Flavivirus/genetics , Meningoencephalitis/diagnosis , Meningoencephalitis/virology , Multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction/veterinary , Poultry Diseases/virology
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