Herpesvirus in Marek's Disease Tumors
G. Schidlovsky 1,
M. Ahmed 1, and
K. E. Jensen 1
1 Chas. Pfizer & Co., Inc., Maywood, New Jersey 07607
Intranuclear and cytoplasmic virus particles of the herpes type were located in epithelial cells that line the kidney collecting tubules obtained from a chick with Marek's disease. The chick had contracted the disease by direct contact transmission. The virus was not observed in any of the invading tumor cells in the same kidney.