A Naturally Occurring Infection of Chickens with a Hemorrhagic Enteritis/Marble Spleen Disease Type of Virus

Publisher Website
Google Scholar
Abstract
A virus indistiguishable from the causal viruses of hemorrhagic enteritis (HE) of turkeys and marble spleen disease (MSD) of pheasants was isolated from enlarged spleens of chickens condemned for Marek''s disease (MD). Sera from 13 of 28 commercial broiler-breeder chicken flocks contained HE/MSD precipitin. The 13 positive flocks had a mean age of 32.9 .+-. 12.4 wk and the 15 negative flocks a mean age 12.8 .+-. 7.3 wk. Avian adenovirus group-II splenomegaly of chickens is the name proposed for this disease.

This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: