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SUBMITTER: Qin Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5297794 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
International journal of molecular sciences 20170114 1
Infectious bursal disease (IBD) is an acute, highly contagious and immunosuppressive poultry disease caused by IBD virus (IBDV). The consequent immunosuppression increases susceptibility to other infectious diseases and the risk of subsequent vaccination failure as well. Since the genome of IBDV is relatively small, it has a limited number of proteins inhibiting the cellular antiviral responses and acting as destroyers to the host defense system. Thus, these virulence factors must be multifuncti ...[more]