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Infectious laryngotracheitis (ILT) caused by infectious laryngotracheitis virus (ILTV), is a highly contagious upper respiratory disease of poultry causing great economic losses to the chicken industry. New strains have been reported to emerge due to recombination of vaccine and field strains, some of them replacing less virulent strains because of their high virulence. The present study aimed to ...

Infectious laryngotracheitis (ILT), caused by Gallid herpesvirus type 1, is a highly contagious upper respiratory and conjunctival disease of poultry. The virus (ILTV) is thought to exit the host in respiratory aerosols and enter by inhalation of these. High levels of ILTV DNA have been detected in excreta, dust, blood or plasma and in various organs outside the respiratory tract; raising the poss ...