Pathological effect of infectious bronchitis disease virus on broiler chicken trachea and kidney tissues.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

This study aimed to investigate the pathological effects of the infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) on chicken trachea and kidney tissues and also desired to diagnose the virus genome using a molecular tool.

Materials and methods

Twenty trachea and kidney samples collected from one broiler farm contain 10,000 chickens at Tikrit city. The chickens showed signs of gasping and mortality (20%) at early ages (20 days old), the presence of IBV investigated using conventional reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction technique with routine histopathological study to tracheal and renal tissue.

Results

Postmortem lesion showed severe respiratory inflammation with abscesses at tracheal bifurcation lead to airway blog. Molecular results showed two genotypes of IBV, one o

SUBMITTER: Hasan II 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7704328 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature