Growth and titration of haemorrhagic enteritis virus of turkeys in chick embryos

Title
Growth and titration of haemorrhagic enteritis virus of turkeys in chick embryos
Publication Date
2019
Author(s)
Hossain, M F
McMillan, M
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2336-3985
Email: mrookle2@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:mrookle2
Katz, M
Walkden-Brown, S
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0638-5533
Email: swalkden@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:swalkden
Gerber, P
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8343-8299
Email: pgerber2@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:pgerber2
Type of document
Conference Publication
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
University of Sydney
Place of publication
Sydney, Australia
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/27073
Abstract
Haemorrhagic enteritis virus (HEV) is an immunosuppressive adenovirus that causes haemorrhagic enteritis in young turkey poults with increased incidence of secondary bacterial infections, such as colibacillosis (Pierson and Fitzgerald, 2013). Worldwide live vaccines propagated in cell culture or turkeys (crude spleen homogenates) are used to prevent the disease. In Australia, there is currently no licensed HEV vaccine due to inability to import the only cell line known to support HEV propagation (RP19) and to the unavailability of specific pathogen free (SPF) turkeys. The use of a vaccine to confer appropriate flock immunity could decrease the incidence of colibacillosis associated with HEV infection in Australia (Gerber et al., 2017). The main goal of this study was to investigate the feasibility of propagating and titrating HEV in SPF chicken embryos.
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Citation
Proceedings of the Australian Poultry Science Symposium, v.30, p. 209-209
ISSN
1034-6260
1034-3466
Start page
209
End page
209

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