KIDNEY LESIONS ASSOCIATED WITH MORTALITY IN CHICKENS INOCULATED WITH WATERFOWL INFLUENZA-VIRUSES
KIDNEY LESIONS ASSOCIATED WITH MORTALITY IN CHICKENS INOCULATED WITH WATERFOWL INFLUENZA-VIRUSES
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DOI:
10.2307/1591342
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发表时间:
1990-01-01
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影响因子:
1.4
通讯作者:
EASTERDAY, BC
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作者:
SLEMONS, RD;LOCKE, LN;EASTERDAY, BC
Seventy-six type A influenza viruses recovered from waterfowl in Wisconsin, California, South Dakota, Florida, Texas, Alabama, and Nebraska were tested for virulence in chickens. The challenge to chickens was intravenous inoculation of first-, second-, or third-egg-passage virus. Each of the virus strains was tested separately in three or four chickens. Eighteen of the 76 viruses caused the death of one or more chickens following inoculation. Postmortem lesions were similar in all dead birds. In decreasing order of frequency, gross lesions included: swollen kidneys evident as accentuated lobular patterns, urates in the pericardial sac, and urates on the surface of the liver. Microscopic lesions present in kidneys were consistent with visceral gout. Mortality was associated with inoculations having higher concentrations of infectious virus. These results indicate that the influenza A viruses circulating in duck populations may include strains potentially pathogenic for chickens.