Viral Diseases Technical Articles
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...
Article published the July 17, 2018:
1. INTRODUCTION
Avian nephritis virus (ANV) is an etiological agent of growth retardation of young chickens by causing interstitial nephritis (Imada et al., 1979). Antibodies against ANV have been found in chi...
Article published the July 17, 2018:
INTRODUCTION
The bursa of Fabricius (BF) is a lymphoid organ, of lympho-epithelial structure. It is a site of B lymphocyte repertoire differentiation and maturation, located in the dorsal terminal part of the ...
Article published the July 17, 2018:
Introduction
Infectious bronchitis (IB) is primarily a respiratory disease of chickens but with potential to cause more widespread infection in the urinary and reproductive tracts in chicken leading to signifi...
Article published the December 6, 2017:
Introduction
All known viruses share an absolute requirement for host cell ribosomes and are exquisitely dependent on cellular translation factors to meet their synthetic needs. Faced with this dependency, vir...
Article published the October 6, 2017:
Infectious bronchitis (IB) is a globally distributed avian disease that represents one of the most persistent sanitary problems to the commercial poultry industry. The intensive production of high-density bird ...