Comparison of egg-yolk and serum antibody titers to four avian viruses by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay using paired field samples

Eggs and blood were collected from 11 hens in each of nine broiler-breeder flocks in Quebec. Serum and egg-yolk extracts were assayed for antibody titers to infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV), infectious bronchitis virus (IBV), Newcastle disease virus (NDV), and reovirus (RV) by a commercial enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kit. Comparison was made between egg-yolk and serum antibody titers by a regression analysis. A high correlation was observed between serum and yolk antibody titers to all the viruses tested (r = 0.9 for IBDV, 0.84 for IBV, 0.84 for NDV, and 0.91 for RV). Antibody monitoring of commercial breeder flocks using egg yolk instead of serum with commercial ELISA plates is thus feasible and is recommended.     

Detection of antibody to Salmonella enteritidis and S typhimurium in the yolk of hens' eggs

Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) have been developed to detect IgG antibodies to Salmonella enteritidis and S typhimurium in the yolk of hens' eggs. Better discrimination and more consistent results were obtained between eggs from experimentally infected and uninfected hens by using saline-dilution of yolk rather than chloroform extraction. Threshold absorbance values were determined in three salmonella-free flocks, and on the basis of these results ELISA optical density values greater than 0.25 were considered to be positive for antibodies to salmonella. Four flocks with a history of salmonella infection were examined; three contained birds which were seropositive for S enteritidis by ELISA and from which S enteritidis was isolated, and a large proportion of eggs from these birds contained antibody to S enteritidis. Eggs from the fourth flock had no detectable antibody, although serum antibody was detected in some birds. No salmonellae were isolated from the yolks of the eggs from any of the four flocks.     

抗猪繁殖与呼吸综合征病毒卵黄抗体的制备及临床应用

制备猪繁殖与呼吸综合征病毒高免卵黄抗体,研究其治疗效果。以猪繁殖与呼吸综合征灭活苗免疫产蛋鸡,采用ELISA方法检测卵黄抗体效价,收集高效价卵黄,采用氯仿抽提和硫酸铵盐析法纯化卵黄抗体。ELISA方法测定收集抗体效价为1∶8 000,测定纯化的抗体浓度为7.85mg/mL,微生物学检验及安全性试验表明制备的卵黄抗体安全可靠,人工感染治愈率和临床应用治愈率分别为100%和89.1%,表明制备的卵黄抗体对猪繁殖与呼吸综合征具有显著的治疗效果。     

犬瘟热病毒免疫蛋鸡血清抗体与卵黄抗体消长规律的研究

试验旨在了解产蛋鸡对犬瘟热病毒(canine distemper virus,CDV)抗原的免疫反应及其血清抗体和卵黄抗体的消长规律,为制备卵黄抗体提供依据。将CDV接种Vero细胞和DF1细胞进行传代并测定其病毒滴度,选取细胞病变出现早、病毒滴度高的Vero细胞毒作为接种病毒抗原免疫蛋鸡。每10 d免疫蛋鸡1次,第4次免疫后每30 d加强免疫1次。免疫前及免疫后每10 d采血分离血清,每5 d收集鸡蛋提取卵黄抗体,用琼脂扩散法和间接ELISA法测定其抗体水平。结果显示,血清抗体比卵黄抗体的滴度高,两者呈正相关性,卵黄抗体出现较血清抗体迟3~5 d,卵黄抗体在第3次免疫后3~5 d就已达到较高水平,此时即可开始收集鸡蛋制备卵黄抗体。     

Laboratory diagnosis of psittacine beak and feather disease by haemagglutination and haemagglutination inhibition

SUMMARY Simple and sensitive haemagglutination and haemagglutination Inhibition assays were developed for psittacine beak and feather disease (PBFD) virus and serum antibody, respectively. The assays were used in the examination of samples from 73 birds clinically affected with PBFD. High antigen titres (log₂ 9 to log₂ 12) were detected In feathers, faeces and cloacal contents of PBFD-affected birds. Antigen was not detected In either faecal or feather samples from 20 normal galahs (Eolophus roselcapillus) and 9 normal sulphur crested cockatoos (Cacatua galerita). After kaolin treatment and haemadsorption of serum, haemagglutination inhibition (HI) antibody titres could not be detected in serum from 42 PBFD-affected birds, whereas serum HI titres from 64 normal psittacine birds ranged from less than log₂ 1 to log₂ 8. Serum and yolk HI antibody responses of 6 PBFD virus-inoculated layer hens were measured. Pre-inoculation chicken sera contained high concentrations of non-specific haemagglutination inhibitors (not detected in chloroform-extracted yolk), which were removed by kaolin treatment and haemadsorption.     

On contagious ecthyma and its treatment in muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus)

Contagious ecthyma (CE) has been a frequently occurring disease in captive Norwegian muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus), inflicting heavy losses among calves and adult males; adult females, however, have been little affected.Parapox virus particles from papilloma tissue were observed by transmission electron microscopy. Papilloma tissue excerted a typical cytopathic effect on human continuous lumar cell line. Sera from infected muskoxen contained antibodies reacting with virus antigen from muskoxen papilloma tissue in a complement fixation test.In animals already affected, papilloma tissue was surgically removed at intervals and the lesions injected with active papilloma tissue homogenate emulsified in Freund’s complete adjuvant (FCA). Serum antibody titers against CE virus increased 3 times in response to this treatment which reduced papilloma growth, but recovery was slow in adults and all but 1 calf succumbed when offered this treatment only.Isolated purified X-ray inactivated CE virus in FCA injected s.c. 4 weeks post partum was first attempted as a vaccine against CE. This treatment increased serum CE-antibody level, but did not prevent CE in calves experimentally injected with live CE virus. The incubation time of CE in this experiment was 20 days.Adequate protection was, however, obtained with a vaccine consisting of homogenated, glutaraldehyde inactivated, muskox papilloma tissue in FCA injected s.c. 2 weeks post partum. It is assumed that this protection was due to activation of both humoral and cellular immune mechanisms.     

An Enzyme‐Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) for Detection of Marek's Disease Virus‐Specific Antibodies and its Application in an Experimental Vaccine Trial

An enzyme‐linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the detection of Marek's disease virus (MDV)‐specific antibodies was developed. Chicken embryo cells (CEC) or chicken kidney cells (CKC) were infected with MDV vaccine strain CVI988/Rispens, and infected‐cell lysates were prepared at day 5 post‐infection by freeze‐thawing. Uninfected‐cell lysates served as negative controls. Sera were used at a 1 : 100 dilution and were added in parallel to wells containing the infected and uninfected cell lysates. The optical densities at 492 nm (OD_{492 nm}) were measured after detection of bound chicken antibodies with anti‐chicken IgG peroxidase conjugate and colour reactions using o‐phenylenediamine (OPD) as a substrate. The best results concerning the signal‐to‐noise ratio were obtained by using CKC cells rather than CEC for antigen preparation. The OD_{492 nm} of plasma or serum samples with infected CKC was <0.02 when samples of unvaccinated and unchallenged maternal antibody‐negative white leghorn chickens were tested. Sera and plasma samples of positive control birds exhibited OD_{492 nm} of <0.01 when tested with uninfected CKC. The assay was used to monitor a trial that compared experimental BAC DNA vaccines and a commercial vaccine. Sustained seroconversion and antibody titers that were constantly rising until day 84 after vaccination (71 days after challenge) was observed only when chickens did not develop Marek's disease. In contrast, chickens developing the disease mounted marginal and short‐lived antibody titers only. We conclude that the developed ELISA may be a valuable tool for the evaluation of the efficacy of MDV vaccination under experimental but possibly also under field conditions.     

Hemagglutination by psittacine beak and feather disease virus and use of hemagglutination inhibition for detection of antibodies against the virus.

Conditions for psittacine beak and feather disease (PBFD) virus hemagglutination and hemagglutination-inhibition (HI) test reactions are defined. The PBFD virus was found to hemagglutinate cockatoo and some guinea pig erythrocytes. The HI test was used to assay serum antibody titer in birds with active PBFD virus infections and in others that had been exposed to diseased birds. On the basis of HI antibody titers in psittacine birds that had been exposed to PBFD virus, but remained clinically normal, we suggest that some birds exposed to the virus are able to mount an effective immune response. Birds with active PBFD virus infections had lower antibody values than did birds that had been exposed to the virus, but remained clinically normal. On the basis of these findings, the ability to develop a suitable HI antibody response may be crucial in determining the disease status of susceptible birds exposed to the PBFD virus. If HI antibodies are found to have neutralizing activity, then the fact that a high HI titer was induced in birds inoculated with purified PBFD virus might suggest that an immunization program would be effective in preventing PBFD virus infections.     

IgY在免疫检测及治疗中的应用进展

卵黄抗体(IgY)是存在于卵黄中的免疫球蛋白,是鸟类、爬行动物和两栖类动物体内的主要抗体,具有强大的免疫功能。论文介绍了卵黄抗体的分子结构和理化特性,综述了IgY在寄生虫(弓形虫、血吸虫、球虫)、细菌(肠产毒素大肠埃希菌)、病毒(B型流感病毒、狂犬病病毒)等病原检测、抗生素(卡那霉素、庆大霉素)残留检测及相关疾病如雏鸡球虫病、猪大肠杆菌病、鳗鱼弧菌和利斯顿氏菌病、轮状病毒病治疗中的应用,并指出目前IgY应用中存在的诸如可能存在禽类未知病原、尚无生产标准规程以及稳定性不够理想等问题。因卵黄抗体具有安全、高效、无公害的特点,其在疫病检测和防治中具有广阔的应用前景。     

抗猪传染性胃肠炎病毒与猪流行性腹泻病毒卵黄抗体制备及其临床应用研究

本研究旨在制备猪传染性胃肠炎病毒和猪流行性腹泻病毒高免卵黄抗体,研究其治疗效果。以猪传染性胃肠炎和猪流行性腹泻二联灭活苗免疫产蛋鸡,琼脂扩散方法检测抗体效价达到1∶64时,收集卵黄,采用氯仿抽提和硫酸铵盐析法纯化卵黄抗体,进行微生物学检测、安全性试验,通过人工感染治疗试验和临床应用,观察其治疗效果。结果人工感染治愈率为100%,临床应用治愈率为88.0%,表明制备的卵黄抗体对猪传染性胃肠炎和流行性腹泻具有显著的治疗效果。     

Effects of infectious bronchitis virus (Arkansas strain) on laying chickens

Seventy-seven-week-old white leghorn layers were inoculated intraocularly with the Arkansas strain of infectious bronchitis virus (AIBV) to study the effects of the virus on egg production and on antibody response of the birds. Infected hens laid fewer eggs than the controls, and those eggs weighed less than eggs laid by controls. Further, the shell quality and internal quality of eggs laid by infected birds were inferior. The serum hemagglutination-inhibition (HI) titers of infected birds increased continuously through 4 weeks postinfection; serum HI titers of the controls were negligible.     

Comparison of egg yolk and serum for the detection of Mycoplasma gallisepticum and M. synoviae antibodies by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay

Egg yolk was evaluated in the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) as an alternative source of antibodies for detection of Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG) and M. synoviae (MS) infections in chickens. There was no statistically significant difference (P greater than 0.05) between the ELISA geometric mean titers (GMTs) of saline-diluted egg yolk and chloroform-extracted egg yolk, and both preparations had a high correlation coefficient (0.87 for MG; 0.97 for MS). The saline-diluted and chloroform-extracted yolk had a relative sensitivity of 90% and specificity of 98% in the MG ELISA; in MS ELISA they were 100% and 96%, respectively. Hemagglutination-inhibition (HI) results with chloroform-extracted samples were satisfactory, but those with saline-diluted samples were not. Neither preparation was satisfactory for use in the rapid plate agglutination (RPA) test. A 1-ml sample of yolk was compared with the whole-yolk method. The chloroform-extracted whole yolk yielded a significantly higher (P less than 0.05) GMT in the MG ELISA; however, there was no statistically significant difference (P greater than 0.05) between GMTs yielded by the two procedures in the MS ELISA. The correlation coefficients for the two sampling methods were 0.73 for MG ELISA and 0.63 for MS ELISA. ELISA detected no statistically significant difference (P greater than 0.05) between GMTs of serum and chloroform-extracted yolk from individual birds. Results with the HI test were comparable to those with ELISA on the same samples. The RPA test yielded comparable results on the serum samples. No statistically significant differences (P greater than 0.05) were observed in HI or ELISA antibody levels between egg-yolk samples and sera on random samples collected from nine flocks that were MG- and MS-free or were infected with MG, MS, or both; however, egg-yolk samples tended to have slightly higher titers than sera in both tests. The optimum screening dilution of chloroform-extracted yolk for detecting MG and MS antibodies by ELISA was 1:800.     

Immune response to avian leukosis virus infection in chickens: Sequential expression of serum immunoglobulins and viral antibodies

Chickens of a 15I₅ × 7₂ cross that produces endogenous Rous associated virus (RAV-0) were infected with subgroup A lymphoid leukosis virus (RAV-1). Within 3 weeks, before RAV-1 neutralizing antibodies were detected, significantly higher levels of serum immunoglobulin G (IgG) were found in infected birds than in uninoculated hatchmates. Immunoglobulin M was significantly elevated only during the late leukotic state. Although most of the inoculated birds tested had RAV-1 neutralizing antibodies, no correlation was found between IgG levels and antibody titers. Tolerance to endogenous virus (RAV-0) and viral group-specific antigen was apparently abrogated by RAV-1 inoculation because significantly higher percentages of iodinated envelope glycoprotein (gpE) of RAV-0 and a viral structural antigen of mol. wt 19,000 daltons (p 19) were precipitated by sera from inoculated birds than from control birds.     

Genetic variations in maternal transfer and immune responsiveness to infectious bursal disease virus

The immune responsiveness to infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV) in four native and crossbred chicken lines was compared. ELISA IBDV antibody titers in hen serum samples, yolk from matched eggs and sera from matched 1-day-old chicks from each chicken line with an identical vaccination program were measured, and plotted. There was considerable variation between lines in the measured IBDV specific antibodies, in vaccinated parent hens and in the amounts of inherited maternally derived antibodies in both yolk and progeny chicks. Differences in ratios of the inherited antibody level from hen to 1-day-old chicks were also found among different chicken lines. Breed differences in regressions of IBDV antibody levels in yolk to that of hen or progeny chicks' sera were also found, so prediction of serum titer of hen and/or progeny chicks from yolk are varied among chicken lines.     

CDV免疫蛋鸡血清抗体与卵黄抗体的消长规律及其相关性分析

为了解产蛋鸡对犬瘟热病毒杭原的免疫反应及其血清抗体和卵黄抗体的消长规律及相关性,为制备卵黄抗体提供依据,将犬瘟热病毒接种Vero细胞和DF1细胞进行传代并测定其病毒滴度,选取细胞病变出现早,病毒滴度高的Vero细胞毒作为接种病毒抗原免疫蛋鸡。通过每10d进行蛋鸡免疫一次,四免后每30d加强免疫一次的方法进行免疫。免疫前和免疫后每10d采血分离血清和每5d收集鸡蛋提取卵黄抗体,用琼脂扩散法和间接ELISA法测定其抗体水平。结果显示,血清抗体比卵黄抗体的滴度高,两者间呈正相关性,卵黄抗体出现较血清抗体迟3～5d,卵黄抗体在三免后3～5d就已达到较高水平,此时即可开始收集鸡蛋制备卵黄抗体。     

白翅浮鸥H5亚型禽流感及新城疫的卵黄抗体监测

白翅浮鸥是大庆龙凤湿地保护区的优势物种,为了解白翅浮鸥对H5亚型禽流感病毒(AIV)与新城疫病毒(NDV)的感染和被动免疫状况,本研究于2010年春季采集白翅浮鸥巢卵144枚,采用血凝抑制试验检测H5亚型AIV和NDV的卵黄抗体.结果表明,龙凤湿地白翅浮鸥种群卵黄抗体的阳性率分别为38.89％和36.11％,平均卵黄抗体滴度分别为3.76 (log2)和4.08 (log2).因此,白翅浮鸥繁殖个体H5亚型AIV和NDV感染率均较高,提示需要进一步加强对其种群的病毒携带情况进行监测研究.     

抗猪流行性腹泻病毒卵黄抗体的制备及应用

本试验利用猪流行性腹泻病毒(porcine epidemic diarrhea virus,PEDV)SC株免疫产蛋鸡,收集高免卵黄,采用水稀释法和水稀释-盐析法获得鸡源抗PEDV卵黄抗体,采用已建立的ELISA方法对卵黄抗体效价进行测定。以3日龄无母源抗体的易感仔猪为试验动物,对抗PEDV卵黄抗体的治疗效果及安全性进行测定,并进一步利用自然发病猪场的治疗效果进行验证。结果表明,经PEDV SC株细胞毒免疫的鸡可在2次加强免疫后15 d产生高水平的特异性抗体。在实验室治疗试验中,攻毒治疗组仔猪的存活率达60%,攻毒对照组存活率为20%;用于自然发病猪场时,饲喂抗PEDV卵黄抗体饲料的仔猪存活率亦为60%,而自然发病对照组的存活率为10%。以上结果表明抗PEDV卵黄抗体对感染PEDV的仔猪有一定治疗作用。     

Effect of dietary manipulation and vaccination of turkey breeder hens on immunoglobulin levels of yolk,yolk sac and neonate poults

Two hundred turkey breeder hens and 24 viable toms of 30–35 weeks age of small white variety were distributed into two treatment groups having four replicates of 25 hens and three toms in each treatment. First four replicates were offered a turkey breeder diet (Diet A) (Nutrient requirements of poultry, 1994, National Academic Press, Washington, DC) and the rest four replicates were maintained on a higher plane of nutrition (Diet B) for 8‐week duration. After 6 weeks of experimental feeding, two replicates from each treatment groups were vaccinated with ND (R₂B) vaccine. Yolk sac of embryo from birds fed Diet B had a significantly higher (p < .05) IgG, IgM level and HI titre (log 2) than those fed Diet A. HI titre values of embryonic yolk sac from the vaccinated birds fed Diet B were significantly higher (p < .05) than that of the control groups. In addition, HI titre values were significantly higher (p < .05) in the day‐old poults of the birds fed Diet B than that of those fed Diet A. There was significantly (p < .01) positive correlation between serum IgG and IgM of the breeder birds and day‐old chicks. Similarly, there was significantly (p < .05) positive correlation between yolk IgG and IgM after 1‐month experimental feeding and yolk sac IgG and IgM. Positive correlation (p < .05) also existed between yolk sac IgM and day‐old chick serum IgM. Furthermore, the HI titres of breeder birds' serum at 14 days post‐vaccination were positively correlated with their egg yolk after 10 and 15 days post‐vaccination, yolk sac and day‐old chicks. Thus, the study envisaged that a higher immunity in neonate poults from turkey breeders maintained on a higher plane of nutrition may be elicited as there was maternal transfer of antibodies from the serum of breeder birds to their offsprings through their yolk sac.     

A preliminary note on the prevalence of infectious bursal disease of poultry in Cameroon

The occurrence of infectious bursal disease (IBD) in industrial poultry flocks in Cameroon was investigated by serological and virological techniques. Antibody to IBD virus was detected in 118 (33.9%) out of 348 serum samples collected in seven randomly selected areas. On the other hand, virological examination was performed on bursa of Fabricius samples obtained post-mortem from flocks in which there was a high mortality among young birds. This virological examination revealed the presence of IBD virus antigen. These observations confirm the occurrence of infectious bursal disease in Cameronian industrial poultry flocks.