Besides the classic canine viruses causing distemper, infectious hepatitis (canine adenovirus type I ; CAV,) and rabies a number of viruses have been isolated from dogs (5). Some of these were known to occur in other species, like parainfluenza type 2 (PI2; SV,), mumps virus, REOvirus type 1, ECHOvirus type 6, Coxsackie B viruses (types 1, 3 and 5), eastern and western equine encephalitis virus...

Infectious laryngotracheitis virus (ILTV) causes acute upper respiratory tract disease in chickens. Attenuated live ILTV vaccines are often used to help control disease, but these vaccines have well documented limitations, including retention of residual virulence, incomplete protection, transmission of vaccine virus to unvaccinated birds and reversion to high levels of virulence following bird...

Infectious Laryngotrachitis (ILT) is an acute respiratory disease with high morbidity and low mortality in poultry. ILT is caused by Gallid herpesvirus 1 (GaHV-1), a member of the Iltovirus genus and family Herpesviridae. It resulted in notable economic losses due to decreasing the growth rates, egg production, and increasing the mortality in commercial poultry, especially layer flocks, and usu...