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Two agents not agglutinating chicken erythrocytes were isolated, one in each of two flocks, from organ samples and tracheal swabs taken from 4- to 7-week-old chicks of 8 broiler flocks experiencing respiratory signs. Virus isolation was done in embryonated SPF hen's eggs. Morphological changes of the embryos, appearing as dwarfing or curling into a spherical form, usually occurred in the 3rd or 4th passage on postinoculation (PI) days 5-9. Some embryos had swollen kidneys covered with urate. Electron microscopy of ultrathin sections of these kidneys revealed the presence of virions reminiscent of coronaviruses. Similar viral particles were seen in resuspended pellets of isolates concentrated by ultracentrifugation. Based on embryo changes, cross-neutralization tests with type-specific antisera, physicochemical tests, results obtained in cell cultures, and electron microscopic findings the two isolates were identified as infectious bronchitis virus (IBV). By cross-neutralization tests the isolates differed from IBV reference strains M41 and H52 and can be considered distinct variants. Elucidation of their epizootiological role requires further investigations.
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PMID:Isolation and characterization of new infectious bronchitis virus variants in Hungary. 196 95

Eight U.S. and Japanese strains of avian infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) were tested for their interferon-inducing ability in chickens. All strains induced interferon (IFN) in several organs of six-week-old SPF chickens. However, the extent of IFN formation in these chickens was not necessarily the same from one strain to another.
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PMID:Interferon induction by several strains of avian infectious bronchitis virus, a coronavirus, in chickens. 245 22

The usefulness of the measurement of antibody titer to fowl pox virus (FPV) by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was evaluated in SPF chickens with or without inoculation with FPV. The optimum concentration of purified antigen was 10 micrograms/ml of protein. The absorbance at 492 nm was less than 0.10 in the chickens negative to FPV from 1 to 63 days old. By contrast, a higher titer was detected in SPF chickens with various FPVs inoculated into the wing web than in non-inoculated chickens. Moreover, there was no cross response to chicken sera immunized with Haemophilus paragallinarum, Marek's disease virus, Newcastle disease virus or infectious bronchitis virus. The titers increased after vaccination were not increased after subsequent challenge with virulent FPV. These findings suggested the usefulness of the measurement of the antibody response to FPV vaccine by ELISA.
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PMID:Measurement of antibody titer to fowl pox virus by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. 769 18

Since circulating antibody titres against infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) often correlate poorly with protection against re-infection, the lachrymal specific IgA level of IBV vaccinated chickens was evaluated as an indicator of resistance against challenge. For this purpose, the post-vaccination (pv) IBV specific lachrymal IgA response was monitored in 30 chickens at 3-day intervals until a rise of this specific isotype was detected. On day 19 pv, all birds (vaccinated group and non-vaccinated controls) were challenged with the moderately attenuated H-52 IBV strain via the ocular route. Protection was assessed by viral reisolation attempts in SPF embryonated chicken eggs (ECE) from tracheal swabs 4 days after challenge. Virus was detected in all control birds by the second passage in ECE. IBV was reisolated from 27% (eight birds) of all H-120-primed birds after five passages in ECE. These results demonstrate that lachrymal-fluid-specific IgA levels in chickens are associated with resistance against IBV reinfection and are therefore a suitable source of antibodies that could be used for flock profiling.
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PMID:Avian infectious bronchitis: specific lachrymal IgA level and resistance against challenge. 770 59

A histomorphometric and physiopathological study was made of the lung parenchyma of Belgian White SPF rabbits infected experimentally with Pasteurella multocida type A. Symptoms observed were characteristic of the acute respiratory syndrome. Mean serum cortisol concentration and rectal temperature increased in all experimental groups. Histopathological changes included alveolitis and leukocytic bronchitis. Changes in alveolar and bronchial cytoarchitecture were attributed to the degeneration and necrosis of constituent epithelial cells.
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PMID:Experimental reproduction of acute pneumonic pasteurellosis in rabbits. 844 39

Mammalian interleukin-18 (IL-18) is one of the pro-inflammatory cytokines involved in innate immune responses to microbial infection preceding the induction of both cellular and humoral immune responses. We assessed the potential of Escherichia coli-expressed His-tag purified recombinant chicken IL-18 (rHis-ChIL-18) as a potentiator of vaccine-induced immune responses in 3 week-old SPF chickens and compared it with several commonly used traditional immunostimulating adjuvants. We found that rHis-ChIL-18 significantly enhanced antibody responses to Clostridium perfringens alpha-toxoid and Newcastle disease virus (NDV) antigens, comparable to the Al(OH)3-gel, Miglyol and chitosan adjuvant. However, antibody responses were lower than water-in-oil (w/o) emulsions and combinations of rHis-ChIL-18 with Al(OH)3-gel, Miglyol or chitosan. Improved HI-titers for infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) were not noted. We conclude that rHis-ChIL-18, when delivered in the proper context, is a novel and safe immunostimulator in chickens.
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PMID:Potentiation of humoral immune responses to vaccine antigens by recombinant chicken IL-18 (rChIL-18). 1591 41

Glycoprotein Si was the major protein to determine infection and immunogenicity of Infectious bronchitis virus (IBV). The S1 glycoprotein gene of IBV isolates were amplified by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and proved to be S1 gene by sequencing. The E. coli-mycobacterium expression shuttle plasmid pR-alpha-S1 was constructed by inserting the S1 gene to the pRR3 with human mycobacterium tuberculosis HSP70 promoter and a signal peptide. Then the plasmid pR-alpha-S1 was introduced into mycobacterium bovis BCG by electroporation to construct a recombinate strain rBCG-Sl. The S1 protein could be highly expressed in M. smegmatis mc2 155 when induced by heating and was detected by ELISA and Western blot assays using monoclonal antibody against S1 glycoprotein of IBV. 6 week-old SPF chicken were subcutaneously immunized with 10(6) cfu rBCG-S1 and each chick was immunized three times at 3 week intervals with the same antigen used for the primary immunization. The protective immunity of rBCG-S1 was identified in vaccinated chickens. Results from the protection test showed the two immunizations with rBCG-S1 could provide protection for chickens from the challenge with virulent nephropathogenic IBV strain X. Haemagglutination inhibition titers were also increased in chickens immunized with the expressed rBCG-S1, and significantly higher titers were detected after challenge. These data indicate that the rBCG-S1 could be used as candidate of a live vector vaccine for NIBV.
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PMID:[Construction of recombinant BCG bearing S1 glycoprotein of nephropathogenic IBV and study on its immunogenicity on chickens]. 1755 43

The aim of this study was to determine whether vaccination against infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) reduces virus transmission, i.e. to test whether IBV transmission among vaccinated chickens is significantly reduced compared to that among unvaccinated chickens. In two vaccinated and two unvaccinated groups of SPF chickens, a standard measure for virus transmission, the reproduction ratio (R) was determined. R is defined as the average number of new infections caused by one typical infectious individual during its entire infectious period. A single vaccination by eye-drop with IBV H120 reduced the transmission of the IBV challenge virus among the vaccinated chickens (estimated R = 0.69, s.e. = 0.33) significantly (P < 0.05) compared to the transmission among the unvaccinated chickens (estimated R = 19.95, s.e. = 12.41). The possible implications for further study, including selection or development of vaccines are discussed.
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PMID:Transmission of infectious bronchitis virus within vaccinated and unvaccinated groups of chickens. 1848 73

The immunopathogenesis of an economically important variant of infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) has been studied in day-old specific pathogen-free and 6-week-old broiler chickens. Experimental infection caused very mild respiratory disease and no mortalities. Diarrhoea was seen in the broilers. Virus distribution and titre in respiratory, urinary and enteric tissues were assessed. In SPF chicks, maximum virus isolations were from oesophagus, followed by trachea, kidney, lung and rectum. In contrast, in the broilers, maximum isolations were from ileum, followed by caecal tonsils, rectum, bursa of Fabricius and harderian gland, but virus was recovered less frequently from trachea, lung and kidney. In both groups virus replication was demonstrated in the epithelium of the trachea, kidneys and tissues of the lower gut by immunofluorescence. Immunostaining for CD4 and CD8 T-cell subsets in trachea, lung and kidney showed earlier and increased recruitment of CD8 cells over CD4 cells. From the kidneys of SPF chicks, no virus was isolated on days 10 or 14 p.i., but was recovered to high titre on day 21. Immunostaining showed the presence of IgM deposits in the glomeruli on those days when virus could not be recovered. In the broilers, gross muscle changes were produced which were less severe than reported in the field and without histopathological changes or increased creatine kinase levels in serum. There was no evidence of virus-induced immunosuppression. The spread of infection and rate of seroconversion to this IBV were similar to other IBV strains. The possible pathogenesis of the muscle changes is discussed.
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PMID:Immunopathogenesis of infection in SPF chicks and commercial broiler chickens of a variant infectious bronchitis virus of economic importance. 1864 74

Pathogenicity tests of 6 isolates of the Haemophilus-group I (H. paragallinarum) and 8 isolates of the Haemophilus-group II isolated from chickens in the Federal German Republic and one strain of H. parainfluenzae isolated from man were carried out in 6-week old SPF-chickens. Infectious coryza (Coryza contagiosa gallinarum) could be produced in chickens with all strains of group I after experimental inoculation and by contact exposure. At necropsy 3 weeks post inoculation (p.i.) organisms of group I were recovered from the sinus and nose of chickens with and without symptoms. The Haemophilus-bacteria however could not be reisolated from lungs and air sacs. No clinical and pathological symptoms were observed in chickens inoculated with isolates : of group II. In another trial these strains were not pathogenic even though chickens were pre-infected with an attenuated infectious bronchitis virus (IBV; Massachusetts type). However, these Haemophilus-bacteria were able to spread from inoculated to non-inoculated chickens by direct contact, and airborne transmission over a distance of 1.5 metres also occurred. Haemophilus organisms of group II were reisolated up to the end of the observation period of 35 days p.i. from the nose, sinus and trachea, but not from the lungs and air sacs. In chickens pre-infected with Mycoplasma gallisepticum and IBV, one strain of group I and of group II could be recovered from the lower respiratory tract (lungs and air sac exudate). Sera from chickens inoculated with the group II strain contained agglutinins to Haemophilus and the titre increased in 8 out of 10 chickens. Sera from chickens without pre-infection with both M. gallisepticum and IBV showed no antibody response to the inoculated group II Haemophilus strain. The H. parainfluenzae strain was non pathogenic and could not be isolated from the respiratory tract of the inoculated chickens at 48 hours p.i.
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PMID:[Differentiation of Haemophilus strains isolated from chickens. III. Pathogenicity tests in chickens]. 1877 10


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