Detection of infectious bursal disease virus in various lymphoid tissues of experimentally infected specific pathogen free chickens by different reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction assays.

Infectious bursal disease (IBD) is a worldwide distributed immunosuppressive viral disease in young chickens, controlled by vaccination. Emergence of several strains of IBD virus (IBDV) has created a demand for strain-specific diagnostic tools. In the present experiment, five different reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assays, including two recently developed strain-specific assays, were employed for detection of ribonucleic acid (RNA) from three different IBDV strains in bursa tissue samples from experimentally infected specific pathogen free chickens.

Differentiation of five strains of infectious bursal disease virus: development of a strain-specific multiplex PCR.

Infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV) is a major cause of disease problems in the poultry industry and vaccination has therefore been applied intensively to control the infection. The classical methods of detection and characterization of IBDV are by the use of immunodiffusion test and histopathology. Since these methods are laborious and have low specificity alternatives are needed.

Recombinogenic flap ligation mediated by human topoisomerase I.

Aberration of eukaryotic topoisomerase I catalysis leads to potentially recombinogenic pathways by allowing the joining of heterologous DNA strands. Recently, a new ligation pathway (flap ligation) was presented for vaccinia virus topoisomerase I, in which blunt end cleavage complexes ligate the recessed end of duplex acceptors having a single-stranded 3'-tail. This reaction was suggested to play an important role in the repair of topoisomerase I-induced DNA double-strand breaks.