Genotypic and phenotypic characterization of the California 99 (Cal99) variant of infectious bronchitis virus

Emergence of variant avian infectious bronchitis virus in India

Background: Infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) is the etiological agent of an acute and highly contagious disease. Infectious bronchitis (IB) affects chicken of all ages and poses major economic loses to the poultry industry worldwide. The continuous evolution of the spike protein (S1) of IBV is responsible for the prevalence of many serotypes/genotypes around the world. Multipl...

Genotypic characterization of infectious bronchitis viruses from India

Infectious bronchitis (IB) is an acute, highly contagious and economically important disease of chickens. In India, IB vaccinations are carried out using vaccines belonging only to the Massachusetts 41 (Ma41) serotype. However, the vaccine strain used may not always be protective and it becomes necessary to continuously monitor the viruses causing disease. There has been anecdotal evidence of I...

Isolation and Identification of Infectious Bronchitis Virus from Commercial Chickens

Isolation and Characterization of New Variant Strains of Infectious Bronchitis Virus in Northern Egypt

| Infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) is the causative agent of an acute and highly contagious disease affecting the respiratory, renal and/or reproductive systems of chicken called infectious bronchitis disease. Controlling of this disease needs continuous identification of the circulating strains and genotypes. In the present study, six IBV samples were isolated from different poultry farms loc...

Full-length Characterization of S1 Gene of Iranian QX Avian Infectious Bronchitis Virus Isolates, 2015

Background and Aims: Avian infectious bronchitis (IB) has prevalent in the most chicken farms during recent years, in spite of the IB vaccination program which has been widely performed in Iran. To better understand the molecular epidemiology of IBV in Iran, the full length sequences of S1 gene of Iranian QX IBVs were determined and phylogenetic analysis was done using some sequences of IBV. M...