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Immunisation of pigs by DNA prime and recombinant vaccinia virus boost to identify and rank African swine fever virus immunogenic and protective proteins

African swine fever virus (ASFV) causes an acute haemorrhagic fever in domestic pigs with high socio-economic impact. No vaccine is available limiting options for control. Although live attenuated ASFV can induce up to one hundred percent protection against lethal challenge…

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Poultry keepers need to be vigilant to combat the spread of bird flu in the UK

The recent H5N6 bird flu outbreak is confined to the south of England, partly due to the introduction of an Avian Influenza Protection Zone in England and Wales including strict biosecurity measures for affected bird keepers. But what is bird flu? Why is it such a threat…

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Pirbright helps demonstrate the UK remains free from bluetongue virus

Scientists at The Pirbright Institute have played a key role in providing assurance that the UK remains free from bluetongue following the positive test results of four cattle which had moved from France into the north of England and Scotland in October 2017 without…

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Pirbright to research how rapidly bird flu can adapt to infect humans

Scientists at The Pirbright Institute and Imperial College London have been awarded a grant by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) to research what makes particular strains of bird flu more likely to adapt to mammalian hosts, and possibly…

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European Virus Archive goes Global (EVAg)

The European Virus Archive goes Global (EVAg) is a non profit organisation that mobilises a global network with expertise in virology to collect, amplify, characterise, standardise, authenticate, distribute, track and collect viruses and derived products. EVAg is made up of…

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Pirbright research to tackle Asian viruses

The Pirbright Institute has been awarded over £1million by the BBSRC-Newton Fund to tackle four major viral diseases that threaten livestock populations across Asia. Pirbright scientists will study two poultry and two pig diseases that have a severe impact on the wellbeing…

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New vaccine technique targets multiple poultry diseases

Researchers at The Pirbright Institute have created a new method of genetically modifying the Marek’s disease vaccine so that it is able to protect against another destructive poultry virus called infectious bursal disease (IBD), and potentially others such as avian…

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Development and optimization of a differentiated airway epithelial cell model of the bovine respiratory tract

Cattle are subject to economically-important respiratory tract infections by various bacterial and viral pathogens and there is an urgent need for the development of more realistic in vitro models of the bovine respiratory tract to improve our knowledge of disease…

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Trypanosoma rhipicephalis sp. nov. (Protozoa: Kinetoplastida) isolated from Rhipicephalus microplus (Acari: Ixodidae) ticks in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Parasites of the genus Trypanosoma are unicellular flagellated microorganisms of the Trypanosomatidae. This study describes an isolate of the genus Trypanosoma naturally infecting Rhipicephalus microplus ticks, characterized through molecular, morphological and biological…