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Detection of mustelid herpesvirus-1 infected European badgers (Meles meles) in the British IslesDonald R King
Department of Virology, Veterinary Laboratories Agency, Woodham Lane, Addlestone, Surrey KT15 3NB, UK
J Wildl Dis 40:99-102. 2004..7% (36/110) of sera sampled from badgers were positive. The conclusion drawn from these data is that infection with MusHV-1 is common among free-ranging badgers in the British Isles...- Human and porcine hepatitis E virus strains, United KingdomMalcolm Banks
Veterinary Laboratories Agency, New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey, United Kingdom
Emerg Infect Dis 10:953-5. 2004..This case further supports the theory that autochthonous HEV infection in industrialized countries is zoonotic... - Bovine lymphotropic herpesvirus and non-responsive post-partum metritis in dairy herds in the UKM Banks
Virology Department, Veterinary Laboratories Agency, New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey KT15 3NB, UK
Vet J 176:248-50. 2008..The detection of BLHV in association with NPPM indicates that further work is warranted to determine the impact this virus has on cattle health... - Hepatitis E autochthonous infection in chronic liver diseaseGabrielle L Lockwood
Cornwall Gastrointestinal Unit, Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust, Truro, Cornwall, UK
Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol 20:800-3. 2008..Hepatitis E infection should be considered in the differential diagnosis in patients with decompensated chronic liver disease whatever their age or travel history. When found, the prognosis may be poor... - Swine and circovirusM Banks
VLA Weybridge, UK
Dev Biol (Basel) 126:107-13; discussion 325-6. 2006.... - Genome sequence analysis of 10 Dutch porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV-2) isolates from a PMWS case-control studyS S Grierson
Department of Virology, Veterinary Laboratories Agency, Woodham Lane, New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey KT15 3NB, UK
Res Vet Sci 77:265-8. 2004..These data provide further evidence to suggest that factor(s) in addition to PCV-2 are necessary in the development of PMWS... - Genetic similarity between porcine circovirus type 2 isolated from the first reported case of PMWS in South Africa and North American isolatesT W Drew
Veterinary Laboratories Agency, Weybridge, New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey
Vet Rec 155:149-51. 2004 - Detection and genetic typing of type 2 porcine circoviruses in archived pig tissues from the UKS S Grierson
Department of Virology, Veterinary Laboratories Agency Weybridge, New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey KT15 32NB, U K
Arch Virol 149:1171-83. 2004..These data demonstrate that similar isolates of PCV-2 have been present in the UK pig population for more than 30 years... - Evidence for the presence of hepatitis E virus in pigs in the United KingdomM Banks
Veterinary Laboratories Agency, New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey KT15 3NB
Vet Rec 154:223-7. 2004..5 per cent of the samples were positive, compared with 58 per cent of similar samples from Swedish pigs and 23.5 per cent of samples from Dutch pigs... - Ontogeny of systemic cellular immunity in the neonatal pig: correlation with the development of post-weaning multisystemic wasting syndromeSylvia S Grierson
Department of Virology, Veterinary Laboratories Agency, New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey KT15 3NB, UK
Vet Immunol Immunopathol 119:254-68. 2007..These findings suggest that lymphocyte activation may be a key early event in the aetiology of PMWS... - Development of a DNA microarray for simultaneous detection and genotyping of lyssavirusesR Gurrala
Division of Microbial Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, United Kingdom
Virus Res 144:202-8. 2009..The random amplification of lyssavirus RNA and the numerous oligonucleotide probes on the microarray chip also offer the potential to detect novel lyssaviruses... - Photochemical inactivation of recombinant baculovirusS A Weightman
Veterinary Laboratories Agency, Addlestone, Surrey, UK
J Virol Methods 81:179-82. 1999..The photochemical inactivation method proved simple, rapid and effective with minimal loss of biological activity in a recombinant protein subsequently used in an ELISA... - Validation of a real-time PCR assay for the detection of bovine herpesvirus 1 in bovine semenJianning Wang
Investigation and Diagnostic Centre Wallaceville, Biosecurity New Zealand, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Upper Hutt, New Zealand
J Virol Methods 144:103-8. 2007.... - An international inter-laboratory ring trial to evaluate a real-time PCR assay for the detection of bovine herpesvirus 1 in extended bovine semenJianning Wang
Investigation and Diagnostic Centre Wallaceville, Biosecurity, New Zealand
Vet Microbiol 126:11-9. 2008.... - Autochthonous hepatitis E in Southwest England: natural history, complications and seasonal variation, and hepatitis E virus IgG seroprevalence in blood donors, the elderly and patients with chronic liver diseaseHarry R Dalton
Cornwall Gastrointestinal Unit, Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust, Truro, Cornwall, UK
Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol 20:784-90. 2008..To report the natural history of autochthonous hepatitis E and hepatitis E virus (HEV) IgG seroprevalence in Southwest England... - Use of an internal standard in a TaqMan nested reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction for the detection of bovine viral diarrhoea virusGraham S Heath
Virology Department, Veterinary Laboratories Agency, Addlestone, KT15 3NB, Surrey, UK
Vet Microbiol 96:357-66. 2003..Furthermore, RNA extracted by robotic methods has proved suitable for use in this assay. This TaqMan nRT-PCR will be a valuable method for the detection of BVDV in a variety of biological matrices including milk and semen... - Potentially novel segmental polioencephalomyelitis in weaner pigsGraham David
Vet Rec 155:62-3. 2004 - Non-travel-associated hepatitis E in England and Wales: demographic, clinical, and molecular epidemiological characteristicsSamreen Ijaz
Virus Reference Division, Centre for Infections, Health Protection Agency, University College London, London, United Kingdom
J Infect Dis 192:1166-72. 2005..Patients infected by HEV indigenous to England and Wales tended to belong to a distinct demographic group, there were multiple sources of infection, and pigs might have been a viral reservoir... - Evaluation of tests for antibodies against bovine herpesvirus 1 performed in national reference laboratories in EuropeJohannes A Kramps
Central Institute for Animal Disease Control, Wageningen University and Research Centre, P O Box 2004, 8203 AA Lelystad, The Netherlands
Vet Microbiol 102:169-81. 2004..Four samples from the panel have been proposed that might be selected as reference sera in addition to the three European reference samples...