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A long term observation of antibody status to chicken anaemia virus in individual chickens of breeder flocks
Authors:K Imai  S Mase  K Tsukamoto  H Hihara  T Matsumura  N Yuasa
Institution:a Poultry Disease Laboratory, National Institute of Animal Health, 4909-58 Kurachi, Seki, Gifu 501-32, Japan;b GHEN Corporation, 82 Kogura, Imaichi, Tochigi 321-11, Japan;c National Institute of Animal Health, 3-1-1 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan
Abstract:The antibody status to chicken anaemia virus (CAV) in four layer breeder flocks was evaluated. Sera were periodically collected from the same 17 to 20 individual chickens of each flock ranging in age from 10 to 63 weeks old. The neutralising and fluorescence antibody were detectable in individual chickens during the observation periods ranging from 13 to 44 weeks. A high prevalence of both neutralising and fluorescence antibodies was observed; however, the prevalence of fluorescence antibody in older chickens was lower than that of neutralising antibody. The geometric mean (GM) of neutralising antibody titres, after all the chickens examined had seroconverted in flocks 1, 2 and 4, ranged from 373·2 to 2940·6. In flock 1, the GM titre at 63 weeks old was significantly lower than that at 37 and 52 weeks old. In flock 4, the GM titre at 48 weeks old was significantly lower than that at 24 and 35 weeks old. In flock 2, the GM titre at more than 31 weeks old significantly increased compared with that at 25 weeks old; this tendency was not seen in the GM of the fluorescence antibody titres. The results indicate that immunity to CAV can last a long time in naturally infected individual chickens.
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