Nephropathogenesis of chickens experimentally infected with various strains of infectious bronchitis virus

Four-day-old specific-pathogen-free chickens were inoculated by eyedrop with four different strains (Gray, JMK, CV56b, and Wolgemuth) of infectious bronchitis virus (IBV). Birds were monitored clinically and euthanatized at 1, 4, 7, and 14 days postinfection and tissues were collected for virus isolation, histopathologic examination, in situ hybridization (ISH), and immunohistochemistry (IHC). Clinical disease was severe in chickens infected with Wolgemuth, but no overt disease was observed with the other strains. Virus was isolated from the kidneys of chickens infected with the Gray-, CV56b-, and Wolgemuth-strains of IBV. Histologically, interstitial nephritis was evident in chickens infected with these same 3 strains. However, viral nucleic acid and antigen were detected only with Wolgemuth-infected kidneys by ISH and IHC. These results indicate that the pathological changes in kidneys from chickens infected with Gray and CV56b may not have resulted from the cytolytic action of the virus.     

鸡传染性支气管炎人工感染模型的中药保护作用

传染性支气管炎(IB)是由传染性支气管炎病毒(IBV)引起的急性、高度接触性呼吸道传染病,其特征是咳嗽、打喷嚏和气管哕音、呼吸困难.该病可引起鸡的增重、饲料报酬以及生产性能降低,当继发或并发感染支原体或大肠杆菌等时可使鸡群死亡率增加,是严重危害世界养禽业的重大传染病之一.由于IBV毒株具有高度易变异和多血清型的特点,给该病的免疫和防治带来了很大困难,因此,研制有效的防治药物具有重要意义.     

Detection of infectious bronchitis virus antigen from experimentally infected chickens by indirect immunofluorescent assay with monoclonal antibody

Infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) was detected by indirect immunofluorescent assay with a monoclonal antibody (MAb-IFA). The monoclonal antibody was specific for the nucleocapsid protein of IBV strain M41. The MAb-IFA clearly detected IBV with high specificity in infected chicken kidney cells. The assay furthermore detected IBV in tracheal smears and sliced tracheas from experimentally infected chickens. The positive reaction was found to be longer than that in the virus recovery test. These results indicate that MAb-IFA is a useful method for the detection of IBV from chickens suspected to have infectious bronchitis.     

Cross-immunity in chickens using seven isolates of avian infectious bronchitis virus

Groups of 75 chickens were each infected with one of 7 isolates of infectious bronchitis virus (Mass 41, Holland 52, SE 17, Ark 99, Clark 333, JMK, and Florida). Following recovery, they were challenged along with susceptible controls to the homologous and 6 heterologous isolates. Cross-immunity was determined by virus recovery 4 or 5 days post-challenge. Challenge with the homologous isolate resulted in 90-100% protection. Challenge with heterologous isolates gave variable results and an overall average resistance of 38%. The SE-17-recovered chickens had a 50% protection, whereas the Holland-52-recovered chickens ahd a 13.3% protection.     

Coronavirus avian infectious bronchitis virus

Infectious bronchitis virus (IBV), the coronavirus of the chicken (Gallus gallus), is one of the foremost causes of economic loss within the poultry industry, affecting the performance of both meat-type and egg-laying birds. The virus replicates not only in the epithelium of upper and lower respiratory tract tissues, but also in many tissues along the alimentary tract and elsewhere e.g. kidney, oviduct and testes. It can be detected in both respiratory and faecal material. There is increasing evidence that IBV can infect species of bird other than the chicken. Interestingly breeds of chicken vary with respect to the severity of infection with IBV, which may be related to the immune response. Probably the major reason for the high profile of IBV is the existence of a very large number of serotypes. Both live and inactivated IB vaccines are used extensively, the latter requiring priming by the former. Their effectiveness is diminished by poor cross-protection. The nature of the protective immune response to IBV is poorly understood. What is known is that the surface spike protein, indeed the amino-terminal S1 half, is sufficient to induce good protective immunity. There is increasing evidence that only a few amino acid differences amongst S proteins are sufficient to have a detrimental impact on cross-protection. Experimental vector IB vaccines and genetically manipulated IBVs--with heterologous spike protein genes--have produced promising results, including in the context of in ovo vaccination.     

Characterization of an avian infectious bronchitis virus isolated in China from chickens with nephritis

One IBV isolate, SC021202, was isolated from the kidneys of the infected young chickens by inoculating embryonated eggs, and its morphology, physiochemical and haemagglutonating properties were detected. Virulence of the isolate SC021202 was determined with specific pathogen-free (SPF) chicken inoculation. Nucleotide acid sequence of S1 gene of the isolate SC021202 was further sequenced and analysed. The physiochemical and morphological properties of the isolate SC021202 were in accordance to that of typical infectious bronchitis virus (IBV). In a pathogenicity experiment, the clinical signs and related gross lesions resembling those of field outbreak were reproduced and the virus isolate SC021202 was re-isolated from the kidneys of the infected chicken. Sequence data demonstrated that the full length of the amplified S1 gene of the isolate SC021202 was composed of 1931 nucleotides, coding a polypeptide of 543 amino acid residues. Compared with IBV strains from GenBank, the nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequence of S1 gene of the isolate SC021202 shared 60.0-91.4% and 49.1-88.9% identities, respectively. A nucleotide fragment of 'CTTTTTAATTATACTAACGGA' was inserted at nucleotide site 208 in the S1 gene of the isolate. These results indicated that IBV isolate SC021202 was a new variant IBV isolate and responsible for field outbreak of nephritis.     

鸡传染性支气管炎病毒地方流行株的分离与鉴定

从山西各地区疑似鸡传染性支气管炎(IB)的病料中,分离到5株鸡传染性支气管炎病毒(IBV)分离株,并对分离病毒进行了病毒形态观察、对鸡新城疫病毒(NDV)的干扰、鸡胚致病性试验、动物回归试验、血凝特性试验、病毒理化特性测定等生物特性鉴定及IBV N基因特异性片段的检测.电镜观察,可见直径为60～120 am,有囊膜及纤突呈冠状排列的病毒粒子;对NDV有明显的干扰作用;分离株的传代物均有明显的致鸡胚矮小化作用;动物回归感染死亡鸡肾脏病变明显,表现肾脏肿大、花斑肾现象,输尿管内充塞大量尿酸盐;无直接血凝性,经1%胰酶处理后可凝集鸡红细胞;分离株对乙醚和氯仿敏感;采用反转录-聚合酶链式反应(RT-PCR)对分离毒株进行扩增,结果均扩增出特异N基因核酸片段.     

IBV感染雏鸡血清中SOD,GSH-Px活性与MDA含量的研究

将80只15日龄雏鸡随机分为对照组和试验组。试验组雏鸡用传染性支气管炎病毒尿囊液滴鼻染毒,攻毒后1,3,6,9,12d分别测定各组血清中超氧化物歧化酶(SOD)、谷胱甘肽过氧化物酶(GSH-Px)活性与丙二醛(MDA)含量,研究血清中氧自由基在鸡传染性支气管炎发病过程中的动态变化。结果表明:试验组血清SOD,GSH-Px活性自攻毒后明显降低(P<0.05或P<0.01);MDA含量在攻毒后开始上升,且在感染后第6、第9天差异极显著(P<0.01)。提示氧化损伤可能参与调节了传染性支气管炎的发生发展过程。     

雏鸡感染IBV后气管、肺及肾组织中血管活性肠肽(VIP)动态变化

80只14日龄SPF鸡随机均分为试验组和对照组,试验组用鸡传染性支气管炎病毒M41株人工感染,于感染后1,3,5,7,11,15 d分别测定试验组及对照组气管、肺和肾组织中血管活性肠肽(VIP)含量,探讨脑肠肽类物质VIP在鸡传染性支气管炎发病过程中的作用.结果表明:试验组气管组织中VIP含量自感染后一直高于对照组,并且于7,11d VIP含量显著高于对照组(P＜0.05);肺组织中VIP含量未出现明显变化;肾组织中VIP含量自感染后7 d开始上升,并且于7,11d显著高于对照组(P＜0.05).提示脑肠肽类物质VIP可能参与调节了呼吸系统疾病鸡传染性支气管炎的发生发展过程.     

嗜肾型传染性支气管炎病毒X株的分离和致弱培育

利用鸡胚分离法从发生肾变病型传染性支气管炎的病鸡分离嗜肾型传染性支气管炎病毒X株,该病毒株能引起鸡胚发育受阻,鸡胚和雏鸡肾脏肿大、输尿管尿酸盐沉积,能被传染性支气管炎病毒M型血清部分中和,初步研究表明是一个新的毒株。通过SPF鸡胚连续传代,获得了嗜肾型传染性支气管炎弱毒疫苗毒株X 93。结果显示,X株经过鸡胚传代,对鸡胚的致死率由原代的0上升到90代的82%;在每0.1 mL鸡胚中的病毒含量由原代的10^5.0E ID50上升到90代的10^7.8E ID50;对3日龄SPF雏鸡的致病率和致死率分别由40代时的70.0%和40.0%下降到90代时的0值;与X 93接种鸡一同饲养的实验鸡全部健康存活;X 93回归雏鸡连传5代,未见毒力返强现象。     

一株鸡肾型传染性支气管炎病毒的分离与鉴定

从山东某鸡场疑似肾型传染性支气管炎病死鸡的肾脏中分离到一株病毒,经SPF鸡胚连续传代、血凝试验、鸡新城疫干扰试验、鸡胚矮小化试验、RT—PCR鉴定和动物回归试验,初步确定该病毒为肾型传染性支气管炎病毒,并命名为SD1105株。     

Pathogenicity of infectious bronchitis virus isolates from Ontario chickens

Infectious bronchitis (IB) is one of the important viral diseases of chickens, and in spite of regular vaccination, IB is a continuous problem in Canadian poultry operations. In an earlier study using sentinel chickens we determined the incidence of infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) in Ontario commercial layer flocks. The objective of this study was to determine the pathogenicity of 5 nonvaccine-related IBV isolates recovered from the sentinel birds. The clinical signs, gross, and histological lesions in specific pathogen-free chickens indicated that all 5 isolates caused mild lesions in the respiratory tract. An important finding of this study was the significantly lower average daily weight gain among virus-inoculated groups of chickens during the acute phase of infection. Based on sequences of part of the S1 gene IBV-ON2, IBV-ON3, and IBV-ON5 formed a cluster and they were closely related to strain CU-82792. IBV-ON4 had 98.7% identity with the strain PA/1220/9, a nephropathogenic variant.     

Establishment of persistent avian infectious bronchitis virus infection in antibody-free and antibody-positive chickens

Avian infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) causes a highly contagious and economically significant disease in chickens. Establishment of a carrier state in IBV infection and the potential for the persistent virus to undergo mutations and recombination in chicken tissues have important consequences for disease management. Nevertheless, whether chickens can maintain persistent IBV infection in the absence of reinfection from exogenous sources or the presence of antibody in the host can modulate virus persistence remains unclear. Indeed, whether or not IBV genome can undergo genetic changes during in vivo infection has not been demonstrated experimentally. In the present study, IBV shedding and tissue persistence were monitored in individual chickens maintained under strict isolation that precluded reinfection from exogenous sources. In the first of two experiments, intranasal exposure of 6-wk-old antibody-free chickens to IBV vaccine virus resulted in intermittent shedding of the virus from both trachea and cloaca of individual birds for up to 63 days. Also, the virus was recovered from the internal organs (spleen, gonad, kidney, lung, cecal tonsil, and cloacal bursa) of six of eight birds killed at various intervals between 27 and 163 days postinoculation (DPI). In the second experiment, IBV exposure of 1-day-old maternal antibody-positive chicks led to periodic virus shedding from the trachea and cloaca in all chickens until 77 days; however, internal organs (lungs and kidneys) of only one of seven birds (killed at 175 DPI) were virus positive, suggesting that presence of antibody at the time of infection protects internal organs from IBV infection. When the lung and kidney isolates of IBV from the latter experiment were compared with the parent-vaccine virus, no changes in their antigenicity, tissue tropism, or the nucleotide sequence of the S1 glycoprotein gene were observed. These findings indicate that, unlike the mammalian coronaviruses, propensity for frequent genetic change may not be inherent in the IBV genome.     

感染IBV雏鸡气管肺及肾组织中P物质动态观察

鸡传染性支气管炎（IB）是由鸡传染性支气管炎病毒（IBV）引起的鸡的一种急性、高度接触性传染的病毒性疾病，主要侵害鸡的呼吸、泌尿生殖器官和消化等系统，可对不同日龄的鸡造成不同程度的危害。同时，IBV往往引起鸡只混合感染（如新城疫、慢性呼吸道病等），并可继发细菌性疾病，从而加重了对鸡群的危害。P物质是存在于呼吸道中并对呼吸道功能起着保护、调节作用的一种脑肠肽类物质，     

The resistance to reinfection of tracheal organ cultures from chickens previously infected with avian infections bronchitis virus.

Lower titres of avian infectious bronchitis (AIB) virus were found following the infection of tracheal organ cultures prepared from chickens that had been given AIB virus intranasally six weeks previously than were found following the infection of organ cultures prepared from untreated or from passively-immune chickens. No infectious virus was found in the tracheal organ cultures at the time they were prepared.