| Year |
Event |
Reference |
| 1873 |
First microscopic examination of fowlpox-infected chicken cells, description of cytoplasmic inclusion bodies
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Bollinger O (1873) Arch Patholog Anat Physiol Klin Med 58:349-361 |
| 1928 |
Protection of chickens from fowlpox using live pigeonpox virus
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Zwick W, et al. (1930) World’s Poultry Congress 4:410-419 |
| 1931 |
Propagation in embryonated chicken eggs
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Woodruff & Goodpasture (1931). The American journal of pathology. 1931 May;7(3):209.
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1931
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Cultivation of Fowl-Pox virus on the chorioallantoic membrane of chick embryos |
Woodruff and Goodpasture (1931) Am J Path 1931 May; 7(3): 209–222 |
| 1956 |
Propagation in tyrpsinized chick embryo fibroblasts |
Koehler H, et al. (1956) Zbl Bakt I Orig 166:454 |
| 1963 |
Use of cell culture propagated fowl and pigeon poxviruses for vaccination of chickens |
Bengelsdorff HJ (1963) Deutsch Tieraerzt Wschft 70:322-326 |
| 1966 |
Attenuation of wild-type fowlpox HP-1 by embryo and tissue culture passage |
Mayr A, Malicki K (1966) Zbl Vetmed 13:1-13 |
| 1986 |
First fowlpox virus DNA sequence
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Boyle D B, Coupar B E (1986) J Gen Virol 67:1591-1600
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| 1988 |
First recombinant fowlpox for use in poultry
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Taylor J, et al. (1988) Vaccine 6:504-508 |
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| 1988 |
First use of fowlpox virus as non-replicating vector for use in mammals
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Taylor J, et al. (1988) Vaccine 6:497-503
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| 2000 |
First complete genome sequence published
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Afonso CL, et al. (2000) J Virol 74:3815-3831
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