Viral Diseases Technical Articles
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...
Article published the June 19, 2019:
Introduction
Birds serve numerous functions in the economy of many nations in terms of meat and egg supply apart from their value as a source of income among peasant (Nuru, 1992).In Nigerian, poultry consist o...
Article published the June 18, 2019:
Introduction
Poultry production in Algeria faces many zootechnical and health constraints, such as viral infections like avian infectious bronchitis (IB). The avian IB virus (IBV), a member of the Coronavirida...
Article published the November 13, 2018:
Infectious bronchitis (IB) is an acute and highly contagious respiratory disease of chickens throughout the world, so much so that many consider IB to be the most contagious of all poultry diseases. It is ...
Article published the October 12, 2018:
Mini Review
Among the possible infectious agents that affect poultry, diseases of the respiratory tract are considered the main health problem, causing both an increase in the number of carcass condemnations a...
Article published the October 11, 2018:
Introduction
Avian leucosis virus (ALV) is belonging to the family Retroviridae, subfamily Orthoretrovirinae, genus Alpha retrovirus. Exogenous avian leucosis viruses(ALV) are classified into A,B,C,D and J sub...