Demonstration of heavy and light density populations of Aleutian disease virus.

A highly purified and concentrated suspension of aleutian disease virus was prepared from large quantities of early infected mink tissues using repeated fluorocarbon extraction procedures. Equilibrium centrifugation of the aleutian disease virus preparation in a cesium chloride gradient yielded three distinct bands at buoyant densities of 1.295, 1.332, and 1.405--1.416 g/cm(3). Electron microscopic observations of these three bands revealed mainly empty particles in the first band. In the second band complete particles with a flattened appearnce predominated and there were also some empty particles. In the third band both complete and empty particles were observed. The size of the aleutian disease virus particles observed in all of the three densities was 23 nm. Light aleutian disease virions (density of 1.332 g/cm3) had a particle to counterimmunoelectrophoresis antigen ratio comparable to that of dense aleutian disease virions (density of 1.405--1.416 g/cm3) but possessed much lower infectivity as determined by mink inoculation.     

Isolation and Identification of Local Aleutian Mink Virus Virulent Strain ADV-LN

Mink suspected infection aleutian mink disease virus (ADV) from mink breeding areas in Liaoning province were tested with CIEP method.The mink with antibody to ADV were selected and culled.Liver,spleen,kidney and mesenteric lymph node samples were taken for pathological examination and the viruses were observed under electron microscope.The grinded tissue fluid filter was added penicillin and treptomycin and inoculated into CRFK cells and passaged by 6 times for virus isolation.And cells cultures were identified as ADV by PCR.Then they were inoculated into healthy mink.Three days later,the mink showed clinical signs,which including the loss of appetite,anemia,hair dull,antifeedant and binge drinking.Some minks showed neurological symptoms,manifested symptoms of convulsions,cramps,staggering gait,ataxia,or hind limb paralysis and died.The virus strains isolated and identified were named as the ADV-LN.     

水貂阿留申病毒地方强毒株ADV-LN的分离鉴定

本研究采用对流免疫电泳方法(CIEP)检测辽宁水貂养殖场疑似水貂阿留申病毒(aleutian mink disease virus,ADV)水貂血清抗体,采集抗体阳性水貂的肝脏、脾脏、肾脏和肠系膜淋巴结组织,电镜观察存在细小病毒样颗粒。组织液研磨无菌处理后,接种CRFK细胞,盲传6代,取病毒细胞分离液用PCR方法检测,呈ADV阳性。将病毒分离液纯化后接种健康水貂,隔离观察,接种后3 d即出现食欲减退,贫血,被毛无光泽,后期出现拒食、狂饮、死亡,个别水貂出现神经症状,表现抽搐、痉挛、步态蹒跚、共济失调,证明分离获得的病毒为ADV强毒株,命名为ADV-LN株。     

Antigen distribution in organs of mink with Aleutian disease parvovirus infection

On tissues from naturally infected non-Aleutian mink an immunohistological study was performed using monoclonal antibodies and the immunoperoxidase method. Structural proteins of ADV were demonstrated in cryosections and in ethanol-fixed and paraffin-embedded material which provide antigen detection in a similar amount together with good histological structure. In lymphoid organs viral antigen was restricted to B-cell areas, particularly lymphoid follicles. The pattern of antigen distribution was typical for follicular dendritic cells which are capable to retain immune complexes. Beside macrophages in the interior of lymphoid follicles most likely proliferating B-lymphoblasts reveal nuclear and cytoplasmatic presence of structural proteins indicating viral replication. Cells of the mononuclear phagocyte system such as cells of lymphatic sinuses and hepatic Kupffer cells harbor viral protein in the cytoplasm, probably resulting from phagocytosis of immune complexes. Renal glomeruli were consistently negative for virus antigen whereas in interstitial infiltrates cells resembling macrophages stained positive for ADV structural proteins.     

Violet mink develop an acute disease after experimental infection with Aleutian disease virus (ADV) isolate ADV SL3

Six-Aleutian (aa)-genotype violet mink were infected intraperitoneally with the Aleutian Disease Virus (ADV) bone marrow derived isolate ADV SL3. All animals developed virus-specific antibodies and hypergammaglobulinaemia. Mortality during the fourteen week duration of the infection was 50%. The virus induced (histo)pathological lesions typical for Aleutian Disease. By immunohistochemical examination using a virus capsid-specific monoclonal antibody viral antigen was detected in lymph nodes, spleen, kidneys and once in hepatic Kupffer cells. By Southern blot and in situ hybridization studies with strand-specific RNA probes able to distinguish viral replicative forms from merely sequestered genomic DNA, ADV replication was detected in mesenteric lymph nodes and spleen. In one mink DNA replicative forms were also found in bone marrow cells or mononuclear cells of the peripheral blood, respectively. Only single-stranded viral DNA was detected in liver, kidney, gut and lung of infected animals. From Southern blot hybridization results a different, possibly organ-specific permissiveness of ADV in vivo is suggested.     

Antigen and Antibody in Aleutian Disease in Mink II. The Reaction of Antibody with the Aleutian Disease Agent Using Immunodiffusion and Immunoelectroosmophoresis

Aleutian disease viral (ADV) antigen was prepared by fluorocarbon extraction of spleen, liver, and lymph nodes from mink experimentally infected ten days previously. Using a potent ADV antigen, antibody was detected by immunodiffusion (ID) and immunoelectroosmophoresis (IEOP). Utilizing these precipitin tests, antibody was detected in all the mink sera tested as early as seven days after experimental infection. Titer of antibody increased throughout the infection period. Titers of more than 100 were reached by 15 days post infection, titers of 1,000 at one month, and titers of more than 5,000 to 10,000 were achieved at two months post infection and thereafter. The immunodiffusion test gave similar or slightly lower titers than those detected by the IEOP.

The IEOP test promises to be a most useful technique for the diagnosis of aleutian disease because it is simple, rapid and specific and is capable of detecting infection early in the course of the disease. It is suggested that this test should be utilized especially for the screening of animals purchased or imported as breeding stock onto ranches.

     

Natural Antibodies in Sera of Mink Before and After The Development of Aleutian Disease (Viral Plasmacytosis)

The effect of infection of mink with aleutian disease virus on the level of natural antibodies in the serum was investigated. The level of natural antibodies to chicken red blood cells was increased following infection but there was no correlation between the degree of hypergamma globulinemia in the diseased mink and the increase in titers. On the other hand, serum levels of natural hemolytic antibodies to sheep red blood cells in mink did not increase during the course of aleutian disease. These data indicate that the aleutian disease virus does not stimulate a broad spectrum of pre-existing antibody producing cells.     

人工感染IBDV鸡法氏囊的电镜研究

通过透射电镜系统观察了人工感染传染性法氏囊病病毒（ＩＢＤＶ）后鸡法氏囊各类细胞的病理变化。感染后１２￣２４ｈ,病毒粒子主要见于髓质淋巴细胞中,细胞中可见到大量纤维样病毒发生基质及无囊膜包围的大型病毒晶格,细胞核染色质浓缩,核中出现纤维样结构。感染后３６ｈ,淋巴细胞开始大量裂解死亡。无囊膜包围的病毒晶格也出现于髓质网状细胞中,被感染的网状细胞并不裂解,而表现出细胞凋亡的特征：染色质固缩呈颗粒块状,胞     

Fish oil-induced yellow fat disease in rats. I. Histological changes

Yellow fat disease was induced in young rats given a vitamin E-deficient diet supplemented with 15% fish oil. The changes in adipose tissue of this oil-induced disorder were different from those of natural yellow fat disease in horse, pig and mink. In the natural disease all fat depots had the early stage of yellow fat disease with interstitial lipofuscin-laden macrophages exclusively. In the rat, however, this change was seen only in the subcutaneous fat depot. Moreover, affected adipose tissue of animals with natural disease had extensive fibrosis, but in the rat fibrosis was always absent. Rats with fish oil-induced yellow fat disease had degenerative changes in various fat depots that occurred at various times but in the horse, pig and mink fat depots were affected simultaneously. Lipofuscin accumulated in the reticuloendothelial system in rats. Accumulation in spleen and liver was dependent on vitamin E deficiency, but only the accumulation in the Kupffer cells was correlated with yellow fat disease. Lipofuscin accumulation in the mesenteric lymph node did not depend on vitamin E deficiency.     

猪圆环病毒2型的分离与鉴定

利用PCR方法，从疑似断奶猪多系统衰竭综合征(PMWS)的自然病例的淋巴结和脾脏中扩增出了预期长度的猪圆环病毒2型(Porcine Circovirus type 2，PCV2)的DNA片段，并用限制性内切酶对PCR产物进行了酶切鉴定。将经PCR扩增和酶切鉴定为PCV2阳性的组织样品匀浆液接种到无PCV污染的PK15细胞中传代，经间接免疫荧光检查，在接毒细胞内观察到了特异性免疫荧光；用接毒细胞制备超薄切片，在电镜下观察到了直径大约为17nm的圆形病毒样粒子和大量不同形态的胞浆内包涵体。由此表明分离出的病毒为猪圆环病毒2型。     

猪繁殖与呼吸综合征病毒变异株感染猪超微结构研究

利用透射电镜对山西省PRRSV变异株感染猪的肺脏、脾脏、肝脏、肾脏、淋巴结等组织进行超微病理变化的观察。试验结果发现,肺脏、脾脏、肝脏、肾脏、淋巴结各组织细胞均被不同程度地感染,各种细胞器遭受普遍的膜结构损伤,而以线粒体和细胞核变化较为严重。本研究为阐明PRRSV变异株感染猪的致病机理提供了理论依据。     

水貂阿留申病研究进展

主要对国内外阿留申病毒的分子生物学进展及阿留申病的病理进行了综述。     

Monoclonal antibodies against porcine macrophages

Two mouse monoclonal antibodies (MAB) (clones 2G6 and 2B10) directed against porcine macrophages are described that are suitable for use in immunohistochemistry, FACS analysis and western blot. As immunogen, porcine cells from bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) were used. The MABs obtained belonged to the mouse IgG1 subclass. The molecular weights of the corresponding antigens were detected by western blot under non-reducing conditions (2G6: 140-150kDa; 2B10: 140-145kDa). For specificity screening, porcine snap-frozen tissues of lung, lung lymph node, tonsil, spleen, thymus, brain, liver, gut and kidney were used. The MABs were able to identify cell populations of the mononuclear phagocytic system in these organs. While MAB 2G6 detected tissue macrophages (sinusoidal lymph node macrophages, red pulp spleen macrophages, Kupffer cells, Langerhans cells, thymus macrophages, macrophages of lung and macrophages of kidney), MAB 2B10 stained cells scattered in the lymph node (subsinusoidal, interfollicular and follicular macrophages) and in the lung interstitium. Additionally, it showed reactivity with Kupffer cells, spleen and kidney macrophages. An immunoreactivity of the MABs could be established also for human but not for bovine and avian macrophages. By flow cytometric analysis, MAB 2B10 reacted with a subpopulation of BAL and peritoneal cells. Antibody 2G6 detected macrophages of the BAL and the peritoneal fluid as well as peripheral blood monocytes.     

免疫组化法检测布氏杆菌在人工感染牛体内的分布

将布氏杆菌分不同剂量皮下注射接种于健康牛,于接种后45 d剖杀,采集相关的器官组织制备组织切片,应用免疫组化方法检查细菌在牛体内的分布。结果显示,肝脏、脾脏、肾脏、淋巴结出现强阳性信号;在高剂量注射的牛体内,肺脏、颌下淋巴结出现阳性细胞;心脏和健康牛组织呈阴性反应。阳性信号主要位于感染细胞的胞质中,偶尔出现在细胞核内。     

Pathological Changes in Virus Enteritis of Mink

The lesions which characterize viral enteritis of mink (VEM) were studied in twenty-six, ten-week-old mink which had been infected by force feeding a tissue suspension containing a Wisconsin strain of mink enteritis virus. The pathogenesis of the lesions was reconstructed from gross and histopathological changes observed in animals which were selected randomly from the group each day for necropsy during the course of the disease.

Alterations were observed in the tissues of all mink examined from post-inoculation day (PID) 4 through 13. The principal macroscopic lesions which consisted of fibrinous enteritis, enlargement and hemorrhage of the spleen and edema of mesenteric and hepatic lymph nodes were most conspicuous on PID 7 and 8. Histopathological changes including necrosis and desquamation of intestinal epithelium, depletion of mature lymphocytes in lymph nodes, thymus and spleen and loss of partly differentiated myeloid and erythroid cells from spleen and bone marrow also reached full development on PID 7 and 8. However, nuclear inclusion bodies which were presumed to be a product of the causative agent and, therefore, of diagnostic significance were most prevalent on PID 3, 4 and 5. The inclusions were observed in mucosal epithelial cells of the intestine, parenchymal cells of the liver and in lymphocyte precursor cells of the spleen, intestinal lymph nodules and masenteric and hepatic lymph nodes.

     

Electron microscopy of bursa of Fabricius of chicks infected with a field strain of infectious bursal disease virus

Chicks were infected in the bursa with a field strain of infectious bursal disease virus. Inter- and intracellular edema, condensation and margination of nuclear chromatin, increased number of lysosomes in macrophages, and lymphocytolytic changes appeared earliest by 8 hours post infection. Inclusions containing spheroid to hexagonal virus particles were seen in the cytoplasm of the macrophages. Multiplying virus particles in crystalline arrays arranged either in single or in multiple clusters were seen in the cytoplasm of macrophages, lymphocytes and light stained reticular epithelial cells.     

Lesions in clinically healthy cattle persistently infected with the virus of bovine viral diarrhea--glomerulonephritis and encephalitis

Four clinically healthy cattle persistently infected with the virus of bovine viral diarrhea were examined for viral antigen and lesions. Antigen was seen by direct immunofluorescence in cytoplasm of the neurons of the brain and cervical part of the spinal cord, cells and basement membrane of renal glomeruli, reticular cells of lymph nodes and spleen, epithelial cells of small intestinal crypts and renal and testicular tubules, and endothelial cells of blood vessels. Infected neurons were pyknotic and surrounded by astrocytes and macrophages. A few blood vessels in the brains were cuffed with mononuclear cells. Basement membranes of renal glomeruli were irregularly thick with eosinophilic material, and mesangial cells in the glomeruli were plentiful. The virus had a direct effect on some tissues, but was restricted in its cytopathogenicity and was not eliminated by defense mechanisms of the host. Renal glomerular lesions were believed to have an immunologic basis.     

Detection of inapparent Aleutian disease virus infection in mink.

The normal serum gamma-globulin centration of mink from the Ontario Veterinary College field station was 13.2 +/- 2.6% of total serum proteins. Mink serum gamma-globulin concentrations above 21%, which represented 3 standard deviations above the normal mean, were considered to be hypergammaglobulinemic. About 39% of pastel mink infected naturally with Aleutin disease virus (ADV) exhibited an inapparent or nonprogressive infection. These nonprogressivley infected mink had serum gamma-globulin values below 21% andhad antibody titers less than 256 if tested by the couterimmunoelectrophoresis technique. Mink maintained inapparent infection for at least 10 months after infection with ADV. Neither gross nor histopathologic changes were present in the mink with inapparent ADV infection. The virus persisted in blood, mesenteric lymph nodes, kidney, liver, and spleen of mink with non-progressive infection, although the amount of virus present probably was small.     

Evaluation of ultrastructural changes associated with encephalomyocarditis virus in the myocardium of experimentally infected piglets

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the ultrastructural changes and localization of encephalomyocarditis virus (EMCV) and viral pathogenesis in the myocardium of experimentally infected piglets. ANIMALS: Eight 20-day-old piglets. PROCEDURE: Six piglets were inoculated oronasally with 5 ml (10(6) median tissue culture infective dose/ml) of EMCV suspension, and 2 were used as uninfected controls. Piglets were euthanatized or died between postinoculation days 1 and 3. Samples of heart tissue from all piglets were evaluated histologically, by virus isolation, and by use of immunohistochemistry and electron microscopy. RESULTS: All infected piglets had gross or microscopic lesions of interstitial myocarditis. immunohistochemically, EMCV antigen was detected in the cytoplasm of cardiac muscle cells, Purkinje fibers, and endothelial cells and in the nucleus of cardiac muscle cells and Purkinje fibers. Ultrastructural lesions were characterized by degeneration and necrosis of cardiac muscle cells and Purkinje fibers. Virus was present intracytoplasmically in cardiac muscle cells, Purkinje fibers, and endothelial cells of capillaries and intranuclearly in cardiac muscle cells. The cell membranes of the Purkinje fibers and endothelial cells had distinct protrusions that contained virus particles. In control piglets, no lesions were found, and no EMCV antigen was detected. CONCLUSIONS: Localization of EMCV intracytoplasmically or intranuclearly in various myocardial cells may well reflect the sites of viral proliferation. The presence of virus particles in cell membrane protrusions and in vacuoles within the lumen of capillaries indicates that virus is released not only by disintegration of the host cell but also via exocytosis.     

伪狂犬病病毒吉林分离株感染BHK-21细胞的超微结构变化

以猪伪狂犬病病毒(PRV)吉林分离株PRV-JL感染体外培养的BHK-21细胞为模型,通过透射电镜对PRV的形态发生学和宿主细胞超微结构的动态变化规律进行研究。结果显示,PRV能导致BHK-21细胞圆缩,并发生细胞融合,形成合胞体;电镜观察到的病毒粒子呈球形或椭圆形,成熟的病毒粒子直径大小为140~210 nm,未成熟病毒粒子直径为90~150 nm,多呈中空状,部分呈致密核芯。病毒吸附于细胞后以膜融合的方式进入细胞,在胞核内复制,装配好的病毒粒子以出芽的方式离开细胞核,获得最初的囊膜,进入胞浆;在胞浆内的病毒粒子又利用高尔基体的膜结构合成第2层囊膜,形成完整的病毒粒子;最后包裹有完整病毒粒子的高尔基囊泡与细胞膜发生融合,将病毒粒子释放到细胞外。感染细胞超微结构变化主要表现为:细胞胞浆空泡增多,内质网扩张,线粒体增生、嵴肿胀、脱落,最后空泡化,整个细胞裂解、破碎。