Acta Veterinaria et Zootechnica Sinica ›› 2024, Vol. 55 ›› Issue (6): 2550-2559.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2024.06.026

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Pathogenicity of Three Recombinant Strains of Infectious Bursal Disease Virus

Kun YANG(), Jingwen MA, Xinrui ZHOU, Liezhu LUO, Zhe LIU, Ziqiang HU, Xingchen WU, Libin LIANG, Shimin GAO*()   

  1. College of Veterinary Medicine, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taigu 030801, China
  • Received:2023-07-18 Online:2024-06-23 Published:2024-06-28
  • Contact: Shimin GAO E-mail:2560719098@qq.com;smgao@126.com

Abstract:

Infectious bursal disease is a highly contagious, immunosuppressive disease of young chickens caused by infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV). In recent years, recombinant IBDV mainly threats to the poultry industry. In our study, we characterized whole-gene sequence analysis of three recombinant strains of infectious bursal disease virus and assessed its pathogenicity in specific pathogen-free chickens. Three strains of virus were identified and amplified by chicken embryo isolation. The nucleotide homology and amino acid evolution tree were compared with the reference strain by Mega 11 and MegAlign software. The pathogen was infected with SPF chickens to determine the pathogenicity, and the viral copies in organs were detected by real-time fluorescence quantitative PCR. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that GD-1 strain belonged to type A2dB3, and showed the characteristics of new variant A, very virulent B; Strain GD-2 and strain GD-3 belong to type A3B1, showed the characteristics of very virulent A, new variant B and very virulent A, early variant B. Pathogenicity assays showed that none of the three strains caused the death of chicks, GD-1 strain had no obvious clinical symptoms, and GD-2 strain and GD-3 strain showed depression and lying on the ground 7 days after the attack. It caused significant atrophy of bursa of Fabricius and enlargement of spleen. The load of toxin in bursa of Fabricius was higher than that in spleen. On the day 14 after challenge, the bursa of bursa of GD-1 strain was significantly higher than that of GD-2 strain and GD-3 strain. Three groups of experimental chickens bursa of fabricius follicles are shrinking, and GD-2 group and GD-3 pathological changes is more serious, the spleen is a GD-1 set of pathological changes is more serious. In this study, the sequence of the three strains was determined, the evolutionary tree was drawn, and the pathogenicity was determined. It may help to study the pathogenic mechanism and the prevention of infectious bursal virus in poultry.

Key words: infectious bursal disease virus, sequence analysis, recombinant virus, pathogenicity

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