Final: Birnaviridae And Caliciviridae Flashcards
What family of viruses are non-enveloped viruses, hexagonal in outline, single shell with icosahedral symmetry and have two segments of linear ds RNA?
Birnaviridae
Infectious burial disease (IBD) belongs to what family of viruses? Is also known as what disease? Where does it live in the body?
Birnavirus
AKA Gumboro Disease
Predilection for the bursa of Fabricius (cloacal bursa)
Infectious Bursal Disease Virus (IBDV) has how many serotypes?
2
What is serotype 1 of IBDV?
Pathogenic to chickens
Has 3 antigenic subgroups:
Variant viruses (no mortality), classic or standard viruses (10-50% mortality), and very virulent viruses (50-100% mortality)
What is serotype 2 of IBDV?
Asymptomatic infections in chickens and turkey
Transmission of IBDV?
Virus excreted by infected birds infects a healthy bird by direct contact or the fecal-oral transmission.
Virus is very stable in nature. Can survive in poultry houses even after cleaning and disinfection procedures are followed. Detected in water and feed even after 52 days.
What is the pathogenesis of IBDV?
Oral infection -> replication in gut associated macrophages and lymphocytes in the ceca and small intestine -> liver -> blood stream ->virus replicated in the Burse of Fabricius and depletes the lymphoid B cells (highest susceptibility is between 3-6 weeks) -> secondary viremia -> localization in other tissues, including other lymphoid tissues -> IBDV trigger both direct (macrophage activation) and indirect (T cell activation) to induce a cytokine storm in acute phase of the disease -> mortality
Immunosuppression: in recovered birds or subclinical cases, diminished antibody response and increased susceptibility to a wide range of opportunistic infectious agents
What are the clinical signs of IBDV?
Distress, depression, ruffled feathers Diarrhea, anorexia Dehydration Swollen bursa Fabricius with hemorrhages Subcutaneous and intramuscular hemorrhages
What are the stages of the bursa infections and what can be seen?
Acute stage -> enlarged edematous bursa
5 days post infection bursa returns to normal size. May be hemorrhagic as in this specific bursa
8 days post infection bursa atrophied and up to 1/8 of normal size
T/F: Live IBD vaccines are produced from fully or partially attenuated strains of virus, known as mild, intermediate, or intermediate plus?
True
T/F: Mild vaccines strains that cause no burial lesions cannot be used effectively in chicks with maternal-derived antibodies (MDA) until about 4 weeks of age as they are neutralized
True
In ovo vaccinations of immune complex (live IBD vaccine virus + anti-IBDV antibody) can be injected at how many days of incubation?
18
What type of vaccine that uses a viral vector to express the VP2 antigen of IBDV in chickens has been licensed recently?
Live recombinant vaccine
T/F: Serotype-2 Birnavirus causes IBD in chickens
False
T/F: Calicivirus derive their name from the Latin word for calix, or ____, as some members of this family have 32 cup-shaped surface depressions that give it a unique appearance.
Cup