Mettifogo E., Nuñez L.F.N., Santander Parra S.H., Astolfi-Ferreira C.S. & Ferreira A.J.P. 2014. Fowl adenovirus Group I as a causal agent of inclusion body hepatitis/ hydropericardium syndrome (IBH/HPS) outbreak in brazilian broiler flocks. Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira 34(8):733-737. Departamento de Patologia, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, Universidade de São Paulo, Av. Prof...

Poultry keeping in India has emerged as one of the fastest growing sector of Indian agriculture. Consequent to intensification, many nonexistent diseases have emerged and some of the existing has appeared in altered form, viz., very virulent infectious bursal disease (vvIBD), hydropericardium syndrome (HPS), chicken infectious anaemia (CIA), egg-drop syndrome 76 (EDS-76), reoviral infections an...

The virus causing hydropericardium syndrome was isolated in chicken embryo liver (CEL) cell culture from livers obtained from naturally infected broilers. The cytopathic effects characterized by rounding and degeneration of cells were visible 36 hr post infection in first passage. At 4th passage level, the infectivity titre was 5.24 log10 TCID50/ml. In May-Grunwald and Giemsa stained cells, bas...

We report here the complete genome sequence of virulent fowl adenovirus serotype 4 strain HB1510, isolated from a diseased chicken with hydropericardium-hepatitis syndrome in Hubei, China, in 2015. The viral genome is 43,721 bp long, and sequence analysis showed an 11-amino-acid deletion in open reading frame 29 (ORF29).

Hydropericardium syndrome (HPS) agent was purified by sucrose gradient centrifugation. The polypeptides of HPS agent were separated through sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) and identified by known protein markers. Eight polypeptides having molecular weights ranging from 119.0 to 15.7 KDa were observed. The nucleic acid of HPS agent was extracted and determin...

This study was designed to perform biological and molecular characterization of avian adenoviruses (AAVs) recovered from suspected cases of hydropericardium-hepatitis syndrome (HHS) in commercial poultry. Initially the samples were screened by Agar Gel Precipitation Test (AGPT) for the presence of AAVs followed by its confirmation and typing through polymerase chain reaction (PCR) focusing on a...

Central Avian Research Institute, Izatnagar (U.P.); Division of Pathology, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar (U.P.); High Security Animal Diseases Laboratory, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Bhopal Campus, Bhopal (M.P.); Animal Resources Development Department, Pt. Nehru Complex, Agartala, Pin – 799006; Division of Animal Genetics and Breeding, Project Directorate on Cattle,...