Haemorrhagic nephritis and enteritis of geese: Pathomorphological investigations and proposed pathogenesis

Dobos-Kovács, M. and Horváth, E. and Farsang, A. and Nagy, Edith and Kovács, Andrea and Szalai, F. and Bernáth, S. (2005) Haemorrhagic nephritis and enteritis of geese: Pathomorphological investigations and proposed pathogenesis. Acta Veterinaria Hungarica, 53 (2). pp. 213-223. ISSN 0236-6290

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Abstract

Haemorrhagic nephritis and enteritis of geese as a new disease was first described in Hungary in 1969. The authors identified the causative agent of the outbreaks occurring in 1969 as a polyomavirus by PCR in 2001. In order to study the pathogenesis of the virus, one-day-old goslings were infected with tissue homogenate that tested positive for polyomavirus by PCR. Morphological, light and transmission electron microscopic (TEM) examinations have revealed that goose haemorrhagic polyomavirus replicates in the endothelial cells of the blood vessels and capillaries of diseased birds. Infection causes damage and necrosis of the endothelial cells. The virus was not observed in the parenchymal cells. Oedema and haemorrhages found throughout the body may be due to the dysfunction or functional deficiency of endothelial cells damaged by the virus.

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