雏鸭腔上囊的生长及组织发育

通过对1～49日龄雏鸭腔上囊绝对质量和生长指数测定以及组织学观察,探讨雏鸭腔上囊生长及组织发育规律。结果:随日龄增长,腔上囊绝对质量逐渐增高;腔上囊生长指数21日龄达最高;黏膜大皱褶高、宽度、淋巴滤泡面积、皮质宽度均不断增加;小结相关上皮向腔面形成突起,并不断增高增宽。结果表明,雏鸭腔上囊1～14日龄生长较为缓慢,14～35日龄生长较快,35～49日龄发育基本趋于稳定,其中21～28日龄是雏鸭腔上囊生长发育的高峰时期,28日龄时,雏鸭腔上囊组织结构基本发育成熟。     

鸭瘟病毒强毒株在感染鸭实质器官内的增殖与分布

鸭瘟病毒(DPV)CHv强毒株经皮下注射、滴鼻和口服3种途径分别感染20日龄天府肉鸭,于攻毒后10、30、60、90min以及4、12、48、72h和9、15d每组分别剖杀2只鸭,采集心、肝、脾、肺、肾、脑、胸腺、法氏囊、哈德氏腺等实质器官,应用TaqMan-MGB探针实时荧光定量PCR对DPV在这些器官的分布和增殖进行检测。结果表明,DPV分布到具体器官的速度与感染的途径、鸭的解剖结构密切相关,其中皮下注射是DPV分布到各实质器官速度最快的途径。30min于皮下感染鸭的肝、脾、胸腺、法氏囊、哈德氏腺、肺、脑、肾,口服感染鸭的肺和法氏囊,滴鼻感染鸭的心脏和哈德氏腺均检测到DPV-DNA;90min所有受检样品中检测到DPV-DNA。鸭抗DPV感染的免疫器官的重要性依次是脾、胸腺、法氏囊和哈德氏腺,30min内DPV-DNA分布到脾、胸腺、法氏囊的速度和数量决定了DPV感染的潜伏期和疾病的严重程度。不同途经感染鸭的相同器官在同一时间内的DPV-DNA拷贝数大多以皮下感染鸭为最高。DPV致死鸭的法氏囊和肾是DPV-DNA含量最高的实质器官。     

鸭瘟病毒弱毒株在免疫雏鸭体内的分布和排毒规律

鸭瘟病毒(DPV)弱毒Cha株经皮下、口服和滴鼻3种途径免疫1日龄雏鸭，应用聚合酶链反应(PCR)检测了病毒在体内分布和排毒规律。Cha株免疫雏鸭后，对血液、心、肝、脾、肺、肾、十二指肠、直肠、法氏囊、胸腺、胰腺、延脑、大脑、小脑、舌、肌肉、骨髓、粪便和食道共19种组织PCR检测结果如下：(1)皮下接种雏鸭后4h，即可在心、肝、脾、肾、法氏囊、胸腺、胰腺、延脑、大脑和小脑共10种组织中检出DPV的DNA；8h后，所有采取的组织器官均可检测到DPV的DNA。(2)口服接种雏鸭后4h，可在舌和食道中检测到DPV的DNA；8h后，可在心、肝、脾、肾、胸腺、胰腺、延脑、大脑、小脑、舌、食道和血液共12种组织器官中检出DPV的DNA。(3)滴鼻接种雏鸭后4h，未能在各种组织中检出DPV的DNA；8h后，可在心、肝、脾、肾、胸腺、延脑、大脑、小脑、舌、食道和血液共11种组织中检测到DPV的DNA。(4)在3种免疫途径中，检出时间最早和检出率最高的组织器官为肝脏、脑(大脑、小脑和延脑)；3种途径免疫的鸭，从免疫后12h至21d均能从所有采集的组织中检测出DPV DNA。     

NO、TNF和IL-2与新型鸭肝炎病毒感染雏鸭肝脑组织损伤的关系

用新型鸭肝炎病毒人工感染9日龄健康樱桃谷雏鸭，对感染后12、24、48、96、168h和14d雏鸭血液、肝和脑组织中一氧化氮（NO）含量，血液中肿瘤坏死因子（TNF）和白细胞介素2（IL-2）含量进行了测定，同时对感染雏鸭的组织病理学变化进行了观察。结果表明．血清中NO含量在接种后48h开始升高，一直持续到接种后96h，接种后7d恢复正常；肝脏组织中NO含量仅在接种后24h与对照组比较显著升高，在其他时间未表现有差异；脑组织中NO含量在整个试验期间没有变化。血清中的TNF和IL-2含量在接种后24h均表现升高，接种后96h降低，其他时间无改变。感染雏鸭的肝组织在接种后24h表现出血性坏死性肝炎变化，接种后48～96h呈增生性病变，而接种后各时期脑组织均呈非化脓性脑炎变化。由此表明，新型鸭肝炎病毒感染可导致雏鸭体内NO、TNF和IL-2发生变化，并且与肝组织损伤、疾病的发生发展有关。     

Pathogenesis of duck plague in the bursa of Fabricius, thymus, and spleen.

White Pekin ducks were inoculated orally with duck plague virus and killed at 24-hour intervals after inoculation. Spleen, thymus, and bursa of Fabricius were collected and examined by light, fluorescent, and electron microscopy. Necrosis of lymphocytes occurred in the bursa of Fabricius, thymus, splenic periarteriolar lymphoid sheath (T lymphocytes), and splenic germinal centers (B lymphocytes). Viral nucleocapsids were present in the karyoplasm of lymphocytes, but these cells necrotized before virions were formed. Periarteriolar reticular sheath cells and sinusoidal lining cells in the spleen, epithelial cells in Hassall's corpuscle of the thymus, epithelial cells between the cortex and medulla of the follicles in the bursa of Fabricius, and macrophages in all 3 tissues contained nucleocapsids in the nuclei and virions in cytoplasmic vacuoles before necrosis occurred.     

A study of the distribution patterns and levels of Salmonella enteritidis in the immune organs of ducklings after oral challenge by serovar-specific real-time PCR

The objective of this study was to understand the distribution patterns and levels of Salmonella Enteritidis (SE) in the immune organs of ducklings after oral challenge. We conducted serovar-specific real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for SE to detect the genomic DNA of SE in the blood and immune organs, including the bursa of Fabricius, thymus, spleen, and Harderian gland, from ducklings after oral challenge at different time points. The results showed that SE was consistently detected in all the samples. The Harderian gland and spleen tested positive at 8 hr postinoculation (PI). The organism was detected in the blood, bursa of Fabricius, and thymus at 10 hr PI. The copy number of SE DNA in each tissue reached a peak at 24-36 hr PI. The spleen, blood, and Harderian gland contained high concentrations of SE, whereas the thymus and bursa of Fabricius had low concentrations. SE populations began to decrease and were not detectable at 2 days PI, but they were still present up to 9 days PI in the spleen, without producing any apparent symptoms. To validate these results, the indirect immunofluorescent antibody (IFA) technique was used, and the IFA results were similar to those of the fluorescent quantitative-PCR. In conclusion, the results provided insight into the SE life cycle in the immune organs; furthermore, the Harderian gland and spleen were determined to be the primary sites of invasion among the immune organs of normal ducklings after oral SE challenge. This study will help in understanding the pathogenesis of SE infection in vivo and may help in the development of a live Salmonella vaccine in the future.     

Pathogenicity of a low-virulence duck virus enteritis isolate with apparent immunosuppressive ability

Duck enteritis virus (DEV) was isolated from commercial 2-to-6-wk-old white Pekin ducks experiencing 25%-30% mortality and high morbidity. Secondary infections with Pasteurella multocida, Riemerella anatipestifer, and Escherichia coli were frequently seen in affected ducks. The isolated virus was identical to the prototype DEV by virus neutralization test but differed from the classic DEV by causing lymphoid organ atrophy and inconsistent hemorrhagic lesions in the intestinal annular bands. Attempts to reproduce the disease in white Pekin ducks were unsuccessful until the virulence of the virus was increased by three passages in Muscovy ducklings. Significant thymic atrophy (P < or = 0.001) was detected during the first 10 days postinfection (DPI), but thymus size returned to normal by 17-24 DPI. However, bursal atrophy increased significantly (P < or = 0.001) from 4 DPI until the end of the experiment (39 DPI). Reduction in body weight was significant (P < or = 0.05) between 4 and 6 DPI. There was massive depletion of thymic and bursal lymphocytes with lymphoid necrosis in the thymus, bursa, spleen, and Harderian gland. Eosinophilic intranuclear inclusions were observed in thymus, bursa, spleen, esophagus, cloaca, liver, conjunctiva, and Harderian gland. Occasional intracytoplasmic inclusions were also found scattered in the epithelial cells of conjunctiva, esophagus, bursa of Fabricius, and cloaca. Virus was recovered from experimentally infected ducks from thymus, bursa, spleen, liver, kidneys, trigeminal ganglion, and cloaca during the first 10 days of infection. These findings suggest that a low-virulent DEV can cause a massive lymphoid atrophy and can sustain immunosuppression as noted by the secondary bacterial infection.     

新型鸭肝炎病毒疫苗候选株的筛选

本试验对临床患病鸭分离的一株疑似鸭肝炎病毒进行了血清型鉴定和毒力测定。利用Ⅰ型和新型鸭肝炎病毒鉴别引物对提取的病毒RNA进行RT-PCR扩增;将分离病毒分别与Ⅰ型和新型鸭肝炎病毒阳性血清进行中和试验;根据测定的病毒ELD50,进行雏鸭攻毒和鸭胚肝细胞接毒试验。结果表明:RT-PCR扩增出了与新型鸭肝炎病毒预期片段相符的705bp条带;分离病毒不能被Ⅰ型鸭肝炎病毒阳性血清中和,新型鸭肝炎病毒阳性血清对该病毒的中和效价是1:200,说明该分离株属于新型鸭肝炎病毒。该毒株的ELD50为10-5.7/0.2mL,能引起攻毒鸭与临床病例一致的症状和病变以及显著的肝细胞病变,可作为新型鸭肝炎病毒的疫苗候选株开发应用。     

商品肉鸡群中MDV、REV、CAV和ARV多重感染的检测

从山东省东营、日照、潍坊、聊城等地区自然发病和临床健康AA商品肉鸡群中分别采集脏器样品,用特异性核酸探针对样品进行马立克氏病病毒（Marek’s disease virus,MDV）、网状内皮组织增生症病毒（Reticuloendotheliosis virus,REV）、鸡传染性贫血病病毒（Chicken anemia virus,CAV）和禽呼肠孤病毒（Avian reoviruses,ARV）检测。结果显示,自然发病AA商品肉鸡群中MDV、REV、CAV和ARV的检出率均较高,分别为69．30％、57．46％、63．60％和67．11％;临床健康AA商品肉鸡群中MDV、REV、CAV的检出率分别为36．96％、43．48％和30．42％,且自然发病和健康鸡群中均存在不同病毒组合的多重感染,感染率分别为85．96％和43．46％。用x2检验进行分析发现,自然发病商品肉鸡群与临床健康商品肉鸡群中MDV、CAV、MDV＋REV、REV＋CAV的检出率和未检出的比例差异极显著（P〈0．01）;REV、MDV＋CAV检出率差异显著（P〈0．05）。对自然发病商品肉鸡的肝脏、脾脏、法氏囊中4种病毒检出率进行X2检验分析发现,MDV在脾脏中检出率显著高于肝脏和法氏囊;REV在法氏囊中检出率显著高于肝脏和脾脏,而CAV和ARV分别在脾脏和肝脏中检出率较高。结果表明,多种免疫抑制性病毒的共感染已普遍存在,是目前AA商品肉鸡易发病且生长缓慢的重要流行病学因素之一。     

Susceptibility of ducks and duck-origin cell cultures to infectious bursal disease virus

Specific-pathogen-free (SPF) ducks that were 1, 3, 4, 7, 10, 30, and 180 days old were inoculated experimentally orally or nasally with infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV). Attempts to induce clinical disease in ducks with strain J1 or FK-78 of IBDV were unsuccessful. Virus-recovery attempts from organ and intestinal contents were also unsuccessful. No significant gross or histopathological lesions were found in liver, spleen, kidney, heart, or bursa of Fabricius of 1- and 3-day-old ducks at 4 or 7 days postinoculation. The ratios of bursa weight to body weight of 1-, 10-, and 30-day-old inoculated and control ducks revealed no difference at 21 days postinoculation. The ducks responded serologically, however, by developing both virus-neutralizing and agar-gel-precipitin antibodies. Virus multiplied in embryonated duck eggs and duck embryo fibroblast cells but not in duck kidney cells.     

鸡传染性法氏囊病的病理学研究

人工接种２８日龄非免疫鸡传染性法氏囊病病毒（ＩＢＤＶ）后,对感染鸡的法氏囊、胸腺、脾、盲肠扁桃体、哈德氏腺、肝、肾进行病理组织学检查。感染后４８ｈ,法氏囊淋巴组织最早出现坏死且长久存在。其他淋巴器官的病变出现较迟,程度轻微且恢复较快。ＩＢＤＶ单抗免疫荧光检测,法氏囊及其他淋巴器官中均检测到病毒,接种后１２ｈ法氏囊中即检出病毒,持续时间也最长（攻毒后１２ｄ）,其次是盲肠扁桃体（攻毒后８ｄ）。攻毒１３ｄ以后,上述器官均未检测到病毒。法氏囊粘膜上皮的扫描电镜观察,攻毒后２ｄ,上皮细胞肿胀,微绒毛减少或消失。攻毒后３ｄ,局部上皮细胞坏死、脱落,并向整个粘膜层扩展,攻毒后１０ｄ,上皮层基本修复。     

Effect of infectious bursal disease virus insult on iron, copper, and zinc concentration in liver, bursa of Fabricius, spleen, pancreas, and serum of chickens

The effect of a systemic disease on the dynamics of iron, zinc, and copper in chickens fed ad libitum was examined by infecting 10-day-old specific pathogen-free chickens with infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV). Liver, bursa of Fabricius, pancreas, spleen, and serum were sampled in 10 controls and 10 challenged chickens at 3-day intervals postinfection (PI) for 15 days. The samples were analyzed using atomic absorption spectroscopy. Serum levels were similar to that reported in the literature. Concentrations of iron and zinc did not change significantly in the pancreas, but there was an increase in copper in infected pancreatic tissue on days 9 and 15 PI. Iron concentration in the spleen showed a significant increase on days 6, 9, and 15 PI, whereas zinc was only significantly increased on day 15 PI. There was no significant change in copper concentrations in the spleens of infected chickens vs. controls. This finding is in line with previously reported data. The results showed that the liver was not a major tissue where iron and zinc were sequestered, as previous data have shown in mammals. Instead, the bursa of Fabricius had significantly increased levels of both iron and zinc in infected tissue vs. control tissue from 9 days PI on. Furthermore, the bursa had increased levels of copper in the latter portion of the study. These findings suggest that the bursa of Fabricius rather than the liver is the major organ for metallic ion sequestering during IBDV infection.     

In vitro and in vivo characterization of avian reoviruses. III. Host factors affecting virulence and persistence

Three avian reovirus isolates (2177, 2035, and 1733) were used to determine the effect of the age of chickens at inoculation on virus virulence and persistence. Groups of specific-pathogen-free leghorns were inoculated with three different reovirus isolates of different levels of pathogenicity at 1 day, 1 week, 2 weeks, 3 weeks, or 4 weeks of age. Tissues were examined for the presence of virus and lesions at regular intervals until 8 weeks postinoculation (PI) and then again at 22 weeks PI. Isolate 1733, which is highly pathogenic, was reisolated from the thymus, trachea, liver, intestine, cecal tonsils, bursa of Fabricius, gastrocnemius tendon, and white blood cells. Microscopic lesions were observed in some tissues, including the thymus, liver, spleen, bursa of Fabricius, and gastrocnemius tendons, when sampled within a 7-day period following inoculation. This isolate persisted and produced microscopic lesions in the gastrocnemius tendons for as long as 22 weeks PI. The isolates of intermediate pathogenicity (2035) or low pathogenicity (2177) were isolated less frequently and from fewer tissues than isolate 1733. Isolate 2035 could be found in the gastrocnemius tendons as long as 7 weeks PI, whereas isolate 2177 was never isolated from the tendons, nor did it produce any notable gross or microscopic tissue changes. Birds inoculated at age 1 week or older with any of the three reovirus pathotypes were more resistant to infection than 1-day-old inoculates, as evidenced by a decrease in virus reisolations and a concurrent reduction in the severity of lesions in selected tissues.     

Detection of pigeon circovirus by polymerase chain reaction

Pigeon circovirus was identified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in young pigeons belonging to 12 different lofts. Viral DNA was extracted from formalin-fed, paraffin-imbedded tissues containing primarily bursa and occasionally liver and spleen with a commercial kit. PCR primers were selected from a published sequence for columbid circovirus and evaluated in a PCR assay. The histopathologic examination of various tissues revealed basophilic globular intracytoplasmic inclusions in the mononuclear cells of the bursa of Fabricius and occasionally in the spleen characteristic for a circovirus. Transmission electron microscopy of a few bursas of Fabricius revealed virus particles measuring 18-21 nm. All the samples were negative by PCR for psittacine beak and feather disease (PBFD) virus and chicken infectious anemia virus. The primers for both pigeon circovirus and PBFD virus did not react in PCR with the chicken anemia virus DNA. Most of the circovirus-infected pigeons had concurrent infections of Escherichia coli, Salmonella, Pasteurella, Aspergillus, candidiasis, nematodiasis, or capillariasis.     

鸭瘟病毒强毒株在急性人工感染成年鸭病例体内分布规律

5 6只 3月龄四川麻鸭经皮下接种鸭瘟病毒 (DPV)强毒 SC1株 ,成功建立了 DPV感染的急性病理模型 ,并应用PCR方法检测了不同时间 DPV在感染鸭体各组织器官的分布情况。结果表明 ,接种 2 h后 ,即能够从脑、肝、脾、法氏囊、胸腺中检出 DPV DNA;12 h,可从心脏、肝脏、脾脏、肺脏、肾脏、十二指肠、直肠、法氏囊、胸腺、胰腺、脑、胸肌、食管、腺胃、血液、舌、口腔分泌物、皮肤、骨髓和粪便等检测到 DPV的 DNA。检出时间最早和检出率最高的组织器官为肝脏和脑组织。本试验为阐明 DPV的致病机理和应用 PCR方法检测感染鸭体组织中的 DPV提供了重要的实验数据。     

雏半番鸭呼肠孤病毒的致病性

从鸭体、禽胚和细胞 3个方面探讨了雏半番鸭呼肠孤病毒 FZ2 株的致病性。经试验表明 ,在实验室条件下 ,该株病毒可导致雏番鸭、雏半番鸭发病、死亡 ,对雏番鸭的致死率为 14 .3%～ 4 1.7% ,对雏半番鸭的致死率高达 38.5 % ,且死亡鸭表现出与自然感染呼肠孤病毒病死的雏番鸭、雏半番鸭相同的病变 ;人工感染幸存鸭大多生长发育明显受阻。该株病毒经尿囊腔途径接种 ,对番鸭胚、半番鸭胚、北京鸭胚、SPF鸡胚的致死率分别为 10 0 %、96 %、2 8%和 0 ,致死鸭胚的肝脏、脾脏表面见白色坏死点。经蛋传试验表明 ,该株病毒有可能经胚蛋垂直传染。以该株病毒在番鸭胚成纤维细胞 (MDEF)上连续传接 10代 ,结果细胞病变 (CPE)仍不明显 ,表明其不易适应 MDEF。由此可见 ,该株雏半番鸭源呼肠孤病毒具有较强的致病力     

Presence of Campylobacter jejuni in various organs one hour, one day, and one week following oral or intracloacal inoculations of broiler chicks

Day-old broiler chicks (n=30) were obtained from a commercial hatchery and inoculated, either orally or intracloacally, with a characterized strain of Campylobacter jejuni. At 1 hr, 1 day, and 1 wk after inoculation, broilers (n = 5) from the orally and intracloacally inoculated groups along with control birds (n=4) were humanely killed by cervical dislocation. The broilers from the control and treatment groups were aseptically opened, and the thymus, spleen, liver/gallbladder, bursa of Fabricius, and ceca were aseptically removed and individually analyzed for C. jejuni. Overall, C. jejuni was isolated after oral inoculation from 13% (10/ 75), 17% (13/75), and 28% (14/50) of the 1-hr, 1-day, and 1-wk samples, respectively. Campylobacter jejuni was isolated from 10% (4/ 40), 8% (3/40), 10% (4/40), 25% (10/40), and 40% (16/40) of the thymus, spleen, liver/gallbladder, bursa of Fabricius, and ceca samples, respectively. Following the intracloacal route of inoculation, C. jejuni was recovered from 32% (24/75), 8% (6/75), and 16% (8/50) of the 1-hr, 1-day, and 1-wk samples, respectively. Campylobacter jejuni was isolated from 5% (2/40), 5% (2/40), 5% (2/40), 45% (18/40), and 40% (16/40) of the thymus, spleen, liver/gallbladder, bursa of Fabricius, and ceca samples, respectively, for all sampling periods. Campylobacter spp. were not recovered from sample sites examined from the control broilers from trial one, trial two, or trial three samples examined after 1 hr and 1 day. However, one control sample was positive from the 1-wk sampling from repetition three; therefore, those data were omitted. The rapid movement of Campylobacter to internal organs following both oral and intracloacal inoculation may be significant, particularly if it persists in these organs as reservoirs throughout the 65-wk life cycle of breeding birds.     

鸭病毒性肠炎病毒强毒在人工感染鸭体内形态结构和发生学的电镜观察

为研究鸭病毒性肠炎病毒(DEV)CH强毒株在感染鸭体内的分布和形态学发生规律，应用透射电镜和超薄切片技术对人工感染DEV的成年鸭各组织器官进行观察。结果表明：感染后12h在脾脏和法氏囊首先观察到少量的DEV出现，24h后在脾、胸腺和法氏囊以及死亡鸭的肝、肠和胰中均观察到具有典型的疱疹病毒粒子及其核衣壳形态的DEV。DEV病毒核衣壳有空心型、致密核心型、双环型和内壁附有颗粒型4种形态，存在胞核和胞浆两种装配方式。病毒成熟有两种方式：一为细胞核内核衣壳在核内获得皮层，通过核内膜获得囊膜成为成熟病毒；二为核内核衣壳通过内外核膜进入胞浆，核内和胞浆内的核衣壳在细胞浆中获得皮层，然后在各种质膜上获得囊膜，最后成熟病毒通过细胞破裂或其他方式释放到细胞外。伴随着病毒的复制、装配和成熟，细胞中出现多种核内和胞浆包涵体、核内致密颗粒、核内微管和中空短管、胞浆电子致密小体等结构。     

Sequential study of visceral lesions caused by isolates of an avian osteopetrosis virus (myeloblastosis-associated virus)

Ten-day-old chicken embryos were inoculated with isolates of myeloblastosis-associated virus that induced osteopetrosis of slow or rapid onset. Bursa of Fabricius, thymus, spleen, bone marrow, kidney, liver, and lung were examined at 15, 17, and 19 days in ovo and at 7 and 25 days after hatching by histologic and immunoperoxidase techniques. Tissues from 19-day-old in ovo embryos also were examined by electron microscopy. The lymphoid organs of embryos inoculated with all isolates manifested changes suggesting inhibited development. Virus was most often associated with macrophages, heterophils, and nonlymphoid stromal cells in these organs. Viral particles and antigen were abundant in tissues from embryos inoculated with slow-onset isolates, but cell necrosis was infrequent. The kidney and bursa had especially abundant viral particles and antigen. Conversely, viral particles and antigen were minimal in tissues from embryos inoculated with the rapid-onset isolate, yet intravascular cellular thrombi, substantial cell necrosis, and increased heterophils and hemocytoblasts were found.