fowl pox Flashcards
largest virus known in birds
fowl pox
complete virions of fowl pox is called
borrel granules
inclusion bodies of fowl pox
BOLLINGER BODIES
fowl pox virus SPREAD through
break in epithelial cells
***reach resp tract through LACRIMAL DUCT
- **AEROSOLS
- ***mosquito
pathogenesis of fowl pox
***virus enters epithelial cell and grow cell to cell
***EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTORS
**enters blood and cause vireamia
secondary viremia is in fowl pox
***in liver ,spleen
cutaneous form in fowl pox stages
***in non feathered parts in head ,neck
PAPULE —–VESICLE—–PUSTULE—-CRUST—–SCAR
DIPHTHERIC FORM of fowl pox
white nodules in upper respiratory tract
to raised yellow plaques in mucous membrane
diphtheric form lesions are present in
pharynx larynx trachea nares conjunctiva
gross lesions in fowl pox
cutaneous form—-nodules
diphtheric form—–white nodules—–yellow cheesy diphtheric membrane—-removing bleeding ulcers
microscopic lesions in fowl pox
- **eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusion bodies
* **hyperplasia of epithelium