DNA from infectious laryngotracheitis virus (ILTV) was randomly sheared and cloned into the M13 bacteriophage. Clones containing ILTV DNA were sequenced and the predicted amino acid sequences were compared to the known sequences of other herpesviruses using computer analysis. Twenty-one ILTV genes were identified, 20 by comparison to varicella-zoster virus and 19 by comparison to herpes simplex...

We have sequenced a 5.4 kb region of the genome from the avian herpesvirus infectious laryngotracheitis virus (ILTV) and identified genes homologous to the thymidine kinase (TK) gene, the capsid p40 gene of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), a gene encoding a protein antigenic in Epstein-Barr virus infections plus one other highly conserved gene encoding a protein implicated in cell fusion in...

The replication characteristics of infectious laryngotracheitis virus (ILTV) in the respiratory and conjunctival mucosa Vishwanatha R.A.P. Reddy, Lennert Steukers, Yewei Li, Walter Fuchs, Alain Vanderplasschen & Hans J. Nauwynck a Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Laboratory of Virology, Department of Virology, Parasitology and Immunology, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium b Institute of Molec...