Günther M. Keil

TL;DR: Eradication of stress-induced transposition evidently stabilized the MDS genomes and provided some of the new properties and led to unanticipated beneficial properties: high electroporation efficiency and accurate propagation of recombinant genes and plasmids that were unstable in other strains.

TL;DR: The prolonged course at the “herd level” together with the exceptionally low dose that proved to be sufficient to infect a runted wild boar could be important for disease dynamics in wild-boar populations and in backyard settings.

TL;DR: This blocking ELISA is superior to a commercially available indirect ELISA and to the 24-h virus neutralization test in detecting low antibody levels in serum and is able to detect specific antibodies in serum as early as 7 days postinfection.

TL;DR: The analysis of concatemers from cells coinfected by two distinguishable alphaherpesviruses provides an efficient tool to study recombination without the bias introduced by invisible or non‐viable recombinant, and by dominance of a virus over recombinants.

TL;DR: Based on residual virulence and immunogenicity, both the gG and the gE deletion mutants are candidates for incorporation in live BHV1 vaccines, however, it also depends on the kinetics of the anti-gG and anti- gE antibody response after wild-type virus infection, whether these deletion mutant are really suitable to be incorporated in a marker vaccine.