Emerging natural recombinant Marek's disease virus between vaccine and virulence strains and their pathogenicity

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第一作者： Zhang, Yanping

作者： Zhang, Yanping;Lan, Xingge;Wang, Yanan;Lin, Yumeng;Yu, Zhenghao;Guo, Rongrong;Li, Kai;Cui, Hongyu;Qi, Xiaole;Wang, Yongqiang;Gao, Li;Pan, Qing;Liu, Aijing;Gao, Yulong;Wang, Xiaomei;Liu, Changjun;Wang, Xiaomei

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关键词： genetic diversity; Marek's disease virus; pathogenicity; recombination; vaccine

期刊名称：TRANSBOUNDARY AND EMERGING DISEASES （ 影响因子：4.521； 五年影响因子：4.529 ）

ISSN： 1865-1674

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摘要： Marek's disease virus (MDV), an oncogenic virus belonging to the subfamily Alphaherpesvirinae, causes Marek's disease (MD). Vaccines can control MD but cannot block the viral infection; they are considered imperfect vaccines, which carry the risk of recombination. In this study, six natural recombinant MDV strains were isolated from infected chickens in commercial flocks in China. We sequenced and analysed the genetic characteristics of the isolates (HC/0803, CH/10, SY/1219, DH/1307, DH/1504 and Hrb/1504). We found that the six strains resulted from recombination between the vaccine CVI988/Rispens (CVI988) strain skeleton and the virulence strain's partial unique short region. Additionally, a pathogenicity study was performed on recombinant strains (HC/0803 and DH/1307) and reference strains (CVI988 and LHC2) to evaluate their virulence. LHC2 induced 84.6% mortality in infected chickens; however, no mortality was recorded in chickens inoculated with HC/0803, DH/1307 or CVI988. However, HC/0803 and DH/1307 induced a notable spleen enlargement, and mild thymus and bursa atrophy at 11-17 days post-challenge (dpc). The viral genome load in the HC/0803- and DH/1307-challenged chickens peaked at approximately 10(7) viral copies per million host cells at 17 dpc and was similar to that in LHC2-challenged chickens, but significantly higher than that of CVI988-challenged chickens. In summary, HC/0803 and DH/1307 displayed mild virulence with temporal damage to the immune organs of chicken and a higher reproduction capability than the vaccine strain CVI988. Our study provides direct evidence of the emergence of recombinant MDV strains between vaccine and virulence strains in nature. The emergence of natural recombinant strains suggests that live vaccines can act as genetic donors for genomic recombination, and recombination may be a safety concern when administering live vaccines. These findings demonstrate that recombination promotes genetic diversity and increases the complexity of disease diagnosis, prevention and control.

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