Record Details

Avipox Virus Infection in Rosella parakeet (Platycercus sp.)

KrishiKosh

View Archive Info
 
 
Field Value
 
Title Avipox Virus Infection in Rosella parakeet (Platycercus sp.)
 
Creator Balachandran, C.
Pazhanivel, N.
Prabhakar, T.G.
Murugadas, V.
Prabakar, P.
 
Subject Avipox virus infection
Rosella parakeet
Gross pathology
Histopathology
Polymerase chain reaction
 
Description Three parakeets were brought for postmortem examination with a history of sudden death. The gross examination of birds revealed multiple light whitish nodules around the left eye, on the skin at the level of hock joint, on the anterior part of tracheal mucosa, congested lung and pallor liver. Impression smears from nodules revealed numerous heterophils, red blood cells, necrotic epithelial cells and bacterial colonies. Histopathological examination of nodules revealed eosinophilic intracytoplasmic
inclusion bodies in the spinosal cells, epidermal hyperplasia, ballooning degeneration of spinosal cells and bacterial colonies. The virus was isolated and infection was produced on both chorioallantoic membrane and chicken embryo fibroblasts. Polymerase chain reaction was carried out and primer set designed from the 4b core protein gene of fowl pox virus revealed amplification at 578 bp. Suitable remedial measures were recommended against avipox virus infection and secondary bacterial infection.
 
Date 2016-06-22T14:53:05Z
2016-06-22T14:53:05Z
2012
 
Type Article
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/67734
 
Language en
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher Journal of Advanced Veterinary Research