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Acute infectious Bursal disease in chickens : pathlogical obsercation and virus isolation |
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E. H. Chowdhury, M. R. Islam, P. M. Das, M. L. Dewan, M. S. R. Khan |
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Pathological and virological investigations were conducted on suspected outbreaks of infectious bursal disease(IBD) in a broiler farm and five pullet-raising poultry farms of Mymensingh and Tangail districts ofBangladesh. About 80 to 100 perent chicks were affected at the age of 26 to 45 days and mortality varied from 20 to 30 percent in broilers and 40 to 80 percent in layer chicks. Signs, symptoms, gross and microscopic lesions were typical of acute IBD. Several isolates of virus could be obtained by embryo inoculation and the virus was diagnosed as infectious bursal disease virus(IBDV) by agar gel immunodiffusion test(AGID). The virus isolate belonged to the very virulent pathotype of IBDV causing 100 percent mortality in three weeks old chicks on experimental infection. |
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Infectious Bursal Disease; Pathology; Chickens; Bangladesh |
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