Irit Davidson
University of Georgia
68 Papers
372 Citations
Irit Davidson is an academic researcher from University of Georgia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Virus & Marek's disease. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 62 publications.
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Papers
Use of the polymerase chain reaction for the diagnosis of natural infection of chickens and turkeys with Marek's disease virus and reticuloendotheliosis virus.
TL;DR: PCR is an efficacious and sensitive method for differential diagnosis of tumour-bearing and immunodeficient birds and was more sensitive in detecting MDV and REV sequences than virus isolation.
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Polymerase chain reaction for differentiation between pathogenic and non-pathogenic serotype 1 Marek's disease viruses (MDV) and vaccine viruses of MDV-serotypes 2 and 3.
TL;DR: The results of the present study show that the PCR tests can be used for the early identification of vvMDV-1 DNA in pathological samples from diseased commercial chickens and to distinguish between the vv MDV- 1 and the three types of virus vaccines used to immunize chickens.
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Identification of novel canine rabies virus clades in the Middle East and North Africa
Dan David,Gareth Hughes,Boris Yakobson,Irit Davidson,Hikmat Un,Orhan Aylan,Ivan V. Kuzmin,Charles E. Rupprecht +7 more
TL;DR: The application of a molecular clock indicates the emergence of current canine RABV diversity to have occurred at about the same time (approx. 1870) in the Middle East and Europe, following divergence from established lineages in Africa and Asia.
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In vivo events of retroviral long terminal repeat integration into Marek's disease virus in commercial poultry: detection of chimeric molecules as a marker.
Irit Davidson,Rinat Borenshtain +1 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated, for the first time, that not only in vitro, but also in vivo, coinfections with Marek's disease virus (MDV) and each of the three avian retroviruses lead to retroviral long terminal repeat (LTR) integration into MDV.
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Creation of diversity in the animal virus world by inter-species and intra-species recombinations: lessons learned from poultry viruses.
Irit Davidson,Robert F. Silva +1 more
TL;DR: The present review will discuss the current knowledge on recombination events that have occurred between avian herpesviruses and retroviruses following dual infections in vitro and in-vivo, and address the creation of CIAV and how it evolved from recombinations between a plant virus and an animal virus.
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