Andres Diaz Mendez

Superinfection and recombination of infectious laryngotracheitis virus vaccines in the natural host

Omid Fakhri, Joanne M Devlin, Glenn F Browning, Mauricio JC Coppo, Jose A Quinteros, Andres Diaz-Mendez, Sang-Won Lee, Carol A Hartley

Journal article  |  2020  |  Vaccine

Infectious laryngotracheitis virus (ILTV, Gallid alphaherpesvirus 1) causes severe respiratory disease in chickens and has a major..

Serological evidence for the presence of wobbly possum disease virus in Australia

Anita Tolpinrud, Simon M Firestone, Andres Diaz-Mendez, Leanne Wicker, Stacey E Lynch, Magdalena Dunowska, Joanne M Devlin

Journal article  |  2020  |  PLOS ONE

Wobbly possum disease virus (WPDV) is an arterivirus that was originally identified in common brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpe..

Latency characteristics in specific pathogen-free chickens 21 and 35 days after intra-tracheal inoculation with vaccine or field strains of infectious laryngotracheitis virus

Dulari S Thilakarathne, Carol A Hartley, Andres Diaz-Mendez, Jose A Quinteros, Omid Fakhri, Mauricio JC Coppo, Joanne M Devlin

Journal article  |  2020  |  AVIAN PATHOLOGY

Latency is an important feature of infectious laryngotracheitis virus (ILTV) yet is poorly understood. This study aimed to compare..

Pathogenesis and tissue tropism of natural field recombinants of infectious laryngotracheitis virus

Dulari S Thilakarathne, Amir H Noormohammadi, Glenn F Browning, Jose A Quinteros, Gregory J Underwood, Carol A Hartley, Mauricio Jc Coppo, Joanne M Devlin, Andres Diaz-Mendez

Journal article  |  2020  |  VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGY

Infectious laryngotracheitis virus (ILTV) is an economically significant respiratory pathogen of poultry. Novel recombinant strain..

Development and application of a combined molecular and tissue culture-based approach to detect latent infectious laryngotracheitis virus (ILTV) in chickens.

Dulari S Thilakarathne, Carol A Hartley, Andrés Diaz-Méndez, Mauricio JC Coppo, Joanne M Devlin

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Virological Methods

Infectious laryngotracheitis virus (ILTV) causes severe respiratory disease in chickens. ILTV can establish latency and reactivate..

Attenuated infectious laryngotracheitis virus vaccines differ in their capacity to establish latency in the trigeminal ganglia of specific pathogen free chickens following eye drop inoculation

Dulari S Thilakarathne, Mauricio JC Coppo, Carol A Hartley, Andres Diaz-Mendez, Jose A Quinteros, Omid Fakhri, Paola K Vaz, Joanne M Devlin

Journal article  |  2019  |  PLoS One

Infectious laryngotracheitis (ILT) is a respiratory disease that affects chickens. It is caused by the alphaherpesvirus, infectiou..

Determination of the minimum protective dose of a glycoprotein-G-deficient infectious laryngotracheitis virus vaccine delivered via eye-drop to week-old chickens

Mesula G Korsa, Joanne M Devlin, Carol A Hartley, Glenn F Browning, Mauricio JC Coppo, Jose A Quinteros, Carlos A Loncoman, Adepeju E Onasanya, Dulari Thilakarathne, Andres Diaz-Mendez

Journal article  |  2018  |  PLOS ONE

Infectious laryngotracheitis (ILT) is an upper respiratory tract disease of chickens that is caused by infectious laryngotracheiti..

Gene set enrichment analysis of the bronchial epithelium implicates contribution of cell cycle and tissue repair processes in equine asthma

Laurence Tessier, Olivier Cote, Mary Ellen Clark, Laurent Viel, Andres Diaz-Mendez, Simon Anders, Dorothee Bienzle

Journal article  |  2018  |  SCIENTIFIC REPORTS

Severe equine asthma is a chronic inflammatory condition of the lower airways similar to adult-onset asthma in humans. Exacerbatio..

Replication-independent reduction in the number and diversity of recombinant progeny viruses in chickens vaccinated with an attenuated infectious laryngotracheitis vaccine

Carlos A Loncoman, Carol A Hartley, Mauricio JC Coppo, Glenn F Browning, Jose A Quinteros, Andres Diaz-Mendez, Dulari Thilakarathne, Omid Fakhri, Paola K Vaz, Joanne M Devlin

Journal article  |  2018  |  VACCINE

Recombination is closely linked with virus replication and is an important mechanism that contributes to genome diversification an..

Genetic Diversity of Infectious Laryngotracheitis Virus during In Vivo Coinfection Parallels Viral Replication and Arises from Recombination Hot Spots within the Genome

Carlos A Loncoman, Carol A Hartley, Mauricio JC Coppo, Paola K Vaz, Andres Diaz-Mendez, Glenn F Browning, Maricarmen Garcia, Stephen Spatz, Joanne M Devlin

Journal article  |  2017  |  APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Recombination is a feature of many alphaherpesviruses that infect people and animals. Infectious laryngotracheitis virus (ILTV; Ga..