Celina Buscaglia

Introduction Chicken Infectious Anemia (CIA) was first recognized by Yuasa et al. in 1979 as a new disease in young chickens caused by a novel virus (CIAV). Since the first description of this disease and subsequent isolation of the virus in cell culture in Japan, CIAV has been isolated in virtually all countries with a poultry industry. CIA is characterized by aplastic anemia and generalized lym ...