Three years of investigation into infectious bursal disease virus of chickens - what we have learnt - Kanchana Jayasundara
Tuesday, 21st June 2016.
Infectious bursal disease is first reported in 1957 in Gumboro area, Delaware, USA and disease is caused by IBDV. Since then IBDV was distributed rapidly throughout the world. The current reach study was designed to test following broad objectives:
- Define differences between Australian classical and variant strains,
- Determine independent effects of age resistance and presence of maternal antibodies,
- Detection of IBDV vRNA in environmental samples,
- Test transmission of IBDV by contaminated dust,
- Determine temperature-time combinations required to inactivate IBDV in heaped litter.
