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Yehia N, El-Sayed HS, Omar SE, Erfan A, Amer F. Genetic evolution of Marek's disease virus in vaccinated poultry farms. Vet World 2021; 14:1342-1353. [PMID: 34220140 PMCID: PMC8243665 DOI: 10.14202/vetworld.2021.1342-1353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2020] [Accepted: 04/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Background and Aim: The Marek’s disease virus (MDV) is a neoplastic disease causing serious economic losses in poultry production. This study aimed to investigate MDV occurrence in poultry flocks in the Lower Egypt during the 2020 breakout and genetically characterized Meq, gL, and ICP4 genes in field strains of MDV. Materials and Methods: Forty samples were collected from different breeds from eight Egyptian governorates in 2020. All flocks had received a bivalent vaccine (herpesvirus of turkey FC-126 + Rispens CVI988). However, weight loss, emaciation, reduced egg production, paralysis, and rough/raised feather follicles occurred. Samples were collected from feather follicles, liver, spleen, and nerve tissue for diagnosis by polymerase chain reaction. MDV genetic characterization was then performed by sequencing the Meq, gL, and ICP4 genes of five positive samples representing different governorates and breeds. Results: A total of 28 samples were positive for MDV field strains, while two were related to MDV vaccinal strains. All samples tested negative for ALV (A, B, C, D, and J) and REV. Phylogenetic analysis of the Meq gene of sequenced samples revealed that all MDVs were related to the highly virulent European viruses (Gallid herpesvirus 2 ATE and PC12/30) with high amino acid (A.A.) identity 99.2-100%. Alternatively, there was low A.A. identity with the vaccine strains CVI988 and 3004 (up to 82.5%). These results indicate that further investigation of the efficacy of current Egyptian vaccines is required. The Egyptian strains also harbor a specific mutation, allowing clustering into two subgroups (A and B). By mutation analysis of the Meq gene, the Egyptian viruses in our study had R101K, P217A, and E263D mutations present in all Egyptian viruses. Furthermore, R176A and T180A mutations specific to our strains contributed to the high virulence of highly virulent strains. There were no mutations of the gL or ICP4 genes. Conclusion: Further studies should evaluate the protection contributed by current vaccines used in Egypt.
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- Nahed Yehia
- Reference Laboratory for Veterinary Quality Control on Poultry Production, Animal Health Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Dokki, Giza 12618, Egypt
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- Department of Poultry Diseases, Benha Provincial Laboratory, Animal Health Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Giza, Egypt
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- Department of Poultry Diseases, Benha Provincial Laboratory, Animal Health Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Giza, Egypt
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- Reference Laboratory for Veterinary Quality Control on Poultry Production, Animal Health Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Dokki, Giza 12618, Egypt
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- Reference Laboratory for Veterinary Quality Control on Poultry Production, Animal Health Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Dokki, Giza 12618, Egypt
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Boumart I, Figueroa T, Dambrine G, Muylkens B, Pejakovic S, Rasschaert D, Dupuy C. GaHV-2 ICP22 protein is expressed from a bicistronic transcript regulated by three GaHV-2 microRNAs. J Gen Virol 2018; 99:1286-1300. [PMID: 30067174 DOI: 10.1099/jgv.0.001124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Herpesviruses have a lifecycle consisting of successive lytic, latent and reactivation phases. Only three infected cell proteins (ICPs) have been described for the oncogenic Marek's disease virus (or Gallid herpes virus 2, GaHV-2): ICP4, ICP22 and ICP27. We focus here on ICP22, confirming its cytoplasmic location and showing that ICP22 is expressed during productive phases of the lifecycle, via a bicistronic transcript encompassing the US10 gene. We also identified the unique promoter controlling ICP22 expression, and its core promoter, containing functional responsive elements including E-box, ETS-1 and GATA elements involved in ICP22 transactivation. ICP22 gene expression was weakly regulated by DNA methylation and activated by ICP4 or ICP27 proteins. We also investigated the function of GaHV-2 ICP22. We found that this protein repressed transcription from its own promoter and from those of IE ICP4 and ICP27, and the late gK promoter. Finally, we investigated posttranscriptional ICP22 regulation by GaHV-2 microRNAs. We found that mdv1-miR-M5-3p and -M1-5p downregulated ICP22 mRNA expression during latency, whereas, unexpectedly, mdv1-miR-M4-5p upregulated the expression of the protein ICP22, indicating a tight regulation of ICP22 expression by microRNAs.
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- Imane Boumart
- 1Equipe Transcription et Lymphome Viro-Induit (TLVI), UMR 7261 CNRS, Université François Rabelais de Tours, UFR Sciences et Techniques, Parc de Grandmont, 37200 Tours, France
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- 1Equipe Transcription et Lymphome Viro-Induit (TLVI), UMR 7261 CNRS, Université François Rabelais de Tours, UFR Sciences et Techniques, Parc de Grandmont, 37200 Tours, France.,†Present address: Interactions Hôtes Agents Pathogènes, Université de Toulouse, INRA, ENVT, Toulouse, France
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- 1Equipe Transcription et Lymphome Viro-Induit (TLVI), UMR 7261 CNRS, Université François Rabelais de Tours, UFR Sciences et Techniques, Parc de Grandmont, 37200 Tours, France
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- 2Veterinary Integrated Research Unit, Faculty of Sciences, Namur Research Institute for Life Sciences (NARILIS), University of Namur (UNamur), 5000 Namur, Belgium
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- 2Veterinary Integrated Research Unit, Faculty of Sciences, Namur Research Institute for Life Sciences (NARILIS), University of Namur (UNamur), 5000 Namur, Belgium
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- 1Equipe Transcription et Lymphome Viro-Induit (TLVI), UMR 7261 CNRS, Université François Rabelais de Tours, UFR Sciences et Techniques, Parc de Grandmont, 37200 Tours, France
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- 1Equipe Transcription et Lymphome Viro-Induit (TLVI), UMR 7261 CNRS, Université François Rabelais de Tours, UFR Sciences et Techniques, Parc de Grandmont, 37200 Tours, France
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He L, Li J, Zhang Y, Luo J, Cao Y, Xue C. Phylogenetic and molecular epidemiological studies reveal evidence of recombination among Marek's disease viruses. Virology 2018; 516:202-209. [PMID: 29407378 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2018.01.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2017] [Revised: 01/24/2018] [Accepted: 01/25/2018] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Marek's disease has brought enormous loss in chicken production worldwide and the increasing virulence of Marek's disease virus (MDV) became a severe problem. To better understand the genetic basis underlying, a Chinese MDV strain HNGS101 isolated from immunized chickens was sequenced. Phylogenetic analysis implied that HNGS101 showed more relatedness to Eurasian strains than GaHV-2 circulating in North America. Recombination networks analysis showed the evidence of recombination among MDV strains, and several recombination events in the UL and US region were found. Further analysis indicated that the HNGS101 strain seemed to be generated by the recombination of the earliest Eurasian strains and North American strains in the US region, which may be responsible for the MD outbreaks in China. In summary, this study demonstrates recombination events among MDV strains [corrected], which may shed light on the mechanism of virulence enhancement.
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- Liangliang He
- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510006, China; School of Biology and Food Engineering, Changshu Institute of Technology, Changshu 215500, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- Key Laboratory of Animal Immunology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Henan Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Immunology, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou 450002, China; College of Animal Science and Technology, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang 471003, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510006, China.
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Rasschaert P, Gennart I, Boumart I, Dambrine G, Muylkens B, Rasschaert D, Laurent S. Specific transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of the major immediate early ICP4 gene of GaHV-2 during the lytic, latent and reactivation phases. J Gen Virol 2018; 99:355-368. [PMID: 29458534 DOI: 10.1099/jgv.0.001007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Transcriptional and post-transcriptional mechanisms are involved in the switch between the lytic, latent and reactivation phases of the viral cycle in herpesviruses. During the productive phases, herpesvirus gene expression is characterized by a temporally regulated cascade of immediate early (IE), early (E) and late (L) genes. In alphaherpesviruses, the major product of the IE ICP4 gene is a transcriptional regulator that initiates the cascade of gene expression that is essential for viral replication. In this study, we redefine the infected cell protein 4 (ICP4) gene of the oncogenic Marek's disease virus (MDV or gallid herpesvirus 2) as a 9438 nt gene ended with four alternative poly(A) signals and controlled by two alternative promoters containing essentially ubiquitous functional response elements (GC, TATA and CCAAT boxes). The distal promoter is associated with ICP4 gene expression during the lytic and the latent phases, whereas the proximal promoter is associated with the expression of this gene during the reactivation phase. Both promoters are regulated by DNA methylation during the viral cycle and are hypermethylated during latency. Transcript analyses showed ICP4 to consist of three exons and two introns, the alternative splicing of which is associated with five predicted nested ICP4ORFs. We show that the ICP4 gene is highly and specifically regulated by transcriptional and post-transcriptional mechanisms during the three phases of the GaHV-2 viral cycle, with a clear difference in expression between the lytic phase and reactivation from latency in our model.
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- Perrine Rasschaert
- Equipe Transcription et Lymphome Viro-Induit (TLVI), UMR 7261 CNRS, Université François Rabelais de Tours, UFR Sciences et Techniques, Parc de Grandmont, 37200 Tours, France
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- Veterinary Integrated Research Unit, Faculty of Sciences, Namur Research Institute for Life Sciences (NARILIS), University of Namur (UNamur), 5000 Namur, Belgium
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- Equipe Transcription et Lymphome Viro-Induit (TLVI), UMR 7261 CNRS, Université François Rabelais de Tours, UFR Sciences et Techniques, Parc de Grandmont, 37200 Tours, France
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- Equipe Transcription et Lymphome Viro-Induit (TLVI), UMR 7261 CNRS, Université François Rabelais de Tours, UFR Sciences et Techniques, Parc de Grandmont, 37200 Tours, France
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- Veterinary Integrated Research Unit, Faculty of Sciences, Namur Research Institute for Life Sciences (NARILIS), University of Namur (UNamur), 5000 Namur, Belgium
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- Equipe Transcription et Lymphome Viro-Induit (TLVI), UMR 7261 CNRS, Université François Rabelais de Tours, UFR Sciences et Techniques, Parc de Grandmont, 37200 Tours, France
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- Equipe Transcription et Lymphome Viro-Induit (TLVI), UMR 7261 CNRS, Université François Rabelais de Tours, UFR Sciences et Techniques, Parc de Grandmont, 37200 Tours, France
- INRA, Département de Santé Animale, Centre de Recherches de Tours, 37380 Nouzilly, France
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Zhuang G, Sun A, Teng M, Luo J. A Tiny RNA that Packs a Big Punch: The Critical Role of a Viral miR-155 Ortholog in Lymphomagenesis in Marek's Disease. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:1169. [PMID: 28694799 PMCID: PMC5483433 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2017] [Accepted: 06/08/2017] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs that have been identified in animals, plants, and viruses. These small RNAs play important roles in post-transcriptional regulation of various cellular processes, including development, differentiation, and all aspects of cancer biology. Rapid-onset T-cell lymphoma of chickens, namely Marek’s disease (MD), induced by Gallid alphaherpesvirus 2 (GaHV2), could provide an ideal natural animal model for herpesvirus-related cancer research. GaHV2 encodes 26 mature miRNAs derived from 14 precursors assembled in three distinct gene clusters in the viral genome. One of the most highly expressed GaHV2 miRNAs, miR-M4-5p, shows high sequence similarity to the cellular miR-155 and the miR-K12-11 encoded by Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, particularly in the miRNA “seed region.” As with miR-K12-11, miR-M4-5p shares a common set of host and viral target genes with miR-155, suggesting that they may target the same regulatory cellular networks; however, differences in regulatory function between miR-155 and miR-M4-5p may distinguish non-viral and viral mediated tumorigenesis. In this review, we focus on the functions of miR-M4-5p as the viral ortholog of miR-155 to explore how the virus mimics a host pathway to benefit the viral life cycle and trigger virus-induced tumorigenesis.
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- Guoqing Zhuang
- Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College StationTX, United States
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- Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College StationTX, United States
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- Key Laboratory of Animal Immunology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Henan Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Immunology, Henan Academy of Agricultural SciencesZhengzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Animal Immunology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Henan Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Immunology, Henan Academy of Agricultural SciencesZhengzhou, China.,College of Animal Science and Technology, Henan University of Science and TechnologyLuoyang, China
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Strassheim S, Gennart I, Muylkens B, André M, Rasschaert D, Laurent S. Oncogenic Marek's disease herpesvirus encodes an isoform of the conserved regulatory immediate early protein ICP27 generated by alternative promoter usage. J Gen Virol 2016; 97:2399-2410. [PMID: 27411695 DOI: 10.1099/jgv.0.000547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Herpesvirus gene expression is temporally regulated, with immediate early (IE), early (E) and late (L) genes. ICP27, which is involved in post-transcriptional regulation, is the only IE gene product conserved in all herpesviruses. We show here that the ICP27 transcript of the oncogenic Marek's disease virus shares the same polyadenylation signal as the bicistronic glycoprotein K-ICP27 transcript and is regulated by alternative promoter usage, with transcription from its own promoter (pICP27) or that of gK (pgK). The pgK can generate a spliced ICP27 transcript yielding an N-terminal-deleted ICP27 isoform (ICP27ΔN) that, like ICP27, co-localizes with the SR protein in infected cells, but with a diffuse nuclear distribution. The pICP27 includes functional responsive elements (REs) for SP1, AP1 and CREB, is essentially active during the lytic phase and leads to exclusive expression of the native form of ICP27. The alternative promoter, pgK, including active REs for GATA, P53 and CREB, preferentially generates the gK transcript during the lytic phase and the spliced ICP27 transcript (ICP27ΔN) during the latent phase. An analysis of the DNA methylation marks of each promoter showed that pgK was systematically demethylated, whereas pICP27 was methylated during latency and demethylated during the lytic stage. Thus, MDV ICP27 gene expression is dependent on alternative promoters, the usage of which is regulated by DNA methylation, which differs between viral stages.
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- Swantje Strassheim
- Equipe TLVI, Université François Rabelais de Tours, UFR Sciences et Techniques, Parc de Grandmont, 37200 Tours, France
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- Veterinary Integrated Research Unit, Faculty of Sciences, Namur Research Institute for Life Sciences (NARILIS), University of Namur (UNamur), 5000 Namur, Belgium
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- Veterinary Integrated Research Unit, Faculty of Sciences, Namur Research Institute for Life Sciences (NARILIS), University of Namur (UNamur), 5000 Namur, Belgium
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- Equipe TLVI, Université François Rabelais de Tours, UFR Sciences et Techniques, Parc de Grandmont, 37200 Tours, France
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- Equipe TLVI, Université François Rabelais de Tours, UFR Sciences et Techniques, Parc de Grandmont, 37200 Tours, France
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- Equipe TLVI, Université François Rabelais de Tours, UFR Sciences et Techniques, Parc de Grandmont, 37200 Tours, France.,INRA, Département de Santé Animale, Centre de Recherches de Tours, 37380 Nouzilly, France
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Strassheim S, Stik G, Rasschaert D, Laurent S. mdv1-miR-M7-5p, located in the newly identified first intron of the latency-associated transcript of Marek’s disease virus, targets the immediate-early genes ICP4 and ICP27. J Gen Virol 2012; 93:1731-1742. [DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.043109-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/30/2023] Open
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Marek’s disease virus serotype 1 (MDV-1) is an oncogenic alphaherpesvirus causing fatal T-cell lymphoma in chickens. MDV latency is characterized by the production of latency-associated transcripts (LATs), a family of non-protein-coding spliced RNAs. A cluster of four microRNAs (cluster mdv1-miR-M8-M10) was identified, but not formally mapped, at the predicted LAT 5′ end. We established a LAT cDNA library from latently MDV-infected cell line MSB-1. We identified 22 highly variable LATs, which were due to the extensive alternative splicing of a total of 14 introns. RACE PCR confirmed the predicted 3′ end and allowed identification of the 5′ end, 400 nt upstream of the previously predicted LAT end. The LATs share their transcription start site with the microRNA-expressing transcript described previously, localizing the microRNAs to the first LAT intron and identifying the LATs as the primary transcripts of the microRNAs. We identified MDV immediate-early (IE) genes ICP4 and ICP27 as putative targets of mdv1-miR-M7-5p, the third microRNA of the cluster mdv1-miR-M8-M10. Endogenously expressed mdv1-miR-M7-5p in MSB-1 cells reduced luciferase activity significantly when microRNA-responsive elements from ICP4 or ICP27 were cloned in the 3′ UTR of the firefly luciferase gene. ICP27 protein levels were decreased by 70 % when the mdv1-miR-M7-5p precursor was co-expressed with an ICP27 expression plasmid. Additionally, we showed a negative correlation between the decreased expression of mdv1-miR-M7-5p and an increase in ICP27 expression during virus reactivation. Our results suggest that, by targeting two IE genes, MDV microRNAs produced from LAT transcripts may contribute to establish and/or maintain latency.
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- S. Strassheim
- Equipe TLVI, Université François Rabelais de Tours, UFR Sciences et Techniques, Parc de Grandmont, 37200 Tours, France
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- Equipe TLVI, Université François Rabelais de Tours, UFR Sciences et Techniques, Parc de Grandmont, 37200 Tours, France
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- Equipe TLVI, Université François Rabelais de Tours, UFR Sciences et Techniques, Parc de Grandmont, 37200 Tours, France
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- INRA, Département de Santé Animale, Centre de recherches de Tours, 37380 Nouzilly, France
- Equipe TLVI, Université François Rabelais de Tours, UFR Sciences et Techniques, Parc de Grandmont, 37200 Tours, France
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