Viral Diseases Technical Articles
Article published the July 2, 2020:
1. Introduction
Infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) is a single-stranded enveloped RNA virus that belongs to the genus Gammacoronavirus, family Coronaviridae [1]. The virus causes a clinical disease characterize...
Article published the July 2, 2020:
INTRODUCTION
Coccidiosis, caused by protozoa of the genus Eimeria, is one of the most important parasitic diseases in chickens and is characterized by intestinal lesions, blood loss, body weight loss, a poor f...
Article published the June 29, 2020:
Introduction
The Infectious Bursal Disease Virus (IBD/IBDV) or Gumboro Disease is an acute highly contagious viral disease of young chickens characterized by a hemorrhagic syndrome, severe damage in cloacal bu...
Article published the June 23, 2020:
INTRODUCTION
Escherichia coli is one of the major infectious agents that can cause tremendous problems in chickens. Pathogenic E. coli strains can be classified into intestinal and extra-intestinal E. coli ac...
Article published the April 22, 2020:
Introduction
Avian Infectious bronchitis (IB) is a highly contagious and economically important worldwide viral disease of chickens. It affects chickens of all ages with severe signs in younger birds and high ...
Article published the March 2, 2020:
Infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) (Coronaviridae, Gammacoronavirus) is an economically significant pathogen of the poultry industry worldwide. It causes low egg and meat production and the highly contagious res...
Article published the February 27, 2020:
A recent study by Butt and others demonstrates that random next generation sequencing can be successfully used for diagnostic identification and genotyping of Newcastle disease viruses present in paraffin embed...
Article published the December 10, 2019:
INTRODUCTION
Inclusion body hepatitis (IBH) is caused by fowl adenovirus (FAV) and induces acute infection in chickens. FAV is mainly infectious for young chickens, and is characterized by many pathological ch...
Article published the September 2, 2019:
Infectious bronchitis (IB) was described in the USA for the first time as a respiratory disease of chickens. Its aetiological agent was isolated in 1936 and then identified as a Gammacoronavirus, namely infecti...
Article published the August 22, 2019:
Natural killer (NK) cells, an important component of innate immunity, are a distinct lineage of lymphocytes defined by the expression of CD56 and NKp46 and by the absence of CD3, providing a first line of defen...