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Molecular Characterization of Local Isolates of Infectious Bursal Disease Virus from Broiler Chickens in Iraq

Published: June 17, 2015
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INTRODUCTION Infectious bursal disease (IBD) is an acute, highly contagious viral disease of young chickens, the causative agent belongs to the genus Avibirnavirus within the family Birnaviridae and is a nonenveloped icosahedral, bisegmented, double stranded RNA virus (Ismail and Saif 1990). IBDV can be differentiated into two serotypes, pathogenic serotype-1 and non-pathogenic serotype-2 stra...
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Majed Mohammed
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Vahel Ameen
29 de octubre de 2015
Dear Dr. Majed you did a nice project .. my question did you used SPF eggs for isolation of the birna virus ? and why you didn't isolated the virus directly from the infected organ " BF" ? kind regards
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