RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Baxi, M. K. A1 Efstathiou, S. A1 Lawrence, G. A1 Whalley, J. M. A1 Slater, J. D. A1 Field, H. J.YR 1995 T1 The detection of latency-associated transcripts of equine herpesvirus 1 in ganglionic neurons JF Journal of General Virology, VO 76 IS 12 SP 3113 OP 3118 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/0022-1317-76-12-3113 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1465-2099, AB Neural tissues from specific pathogen-free ponies that had been experimentally infected with equine herpesvirus 1 (EHV-1) were analysed by in situ hybridization. Digoxigenin-labelled EHV-1 BamHI fragments spanning almost the entire EHV-1 genome were hybridized to RNA in tissue sections from latently infected trigeminal ganglia. The BamHI E fragment detected EHV-1 RNA antisense to gene 63 (HSV-1 homologue ICP0) in a small number of neurons. Sixteen other BamHI fragments gave negative results in 20 sections tested with each fragment. Latency associated transcripts (LATs) were localized to the neuronal nuclei. EHV-1 nucleotide sequence data in the region reveals the presence of a putative EHV-1 LAT promoter that shares similar motifs with the HSV-1 LAT promoter, including the LAT promoter-binding factor, and may have a role in EHV-1 LAT expression., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jgv/10.1099/0022-1317-76-12-3113