1. The isolation and characterizations of a duck adenovirus 1 causing Egg Drop Syndrome in ducks, China.
- Author
-
Wei, Feng, Jiang, Xiaoning, He, Dalin, Diao, Youxiang, and Tang, Yi
- Subjects
- *
FALLOPIAN tubes , *DUCK plague , *ADENOVIRUSES , *MERS coronavirus , *VIRAL genomes , *NUCLEOTIDE sequencing , *DUCKLINGS , *WHOLE genome sequencing - Abstract
A fowl adenovirus variant designated as DAdV-JSXZ strain was isolated from the tissue specimen of fallopian tubes of a duck case, which was submitted from a 276-day-old Cherry valley breeding duck flock experienced egg-dropping syndromes in March 2022. Full-genome sequence of the DAdV-I JSXZ strain by next-generation sequencing revealed that the complete genome length of DAdV-JSXZ strain was 33,213 nucleotides and shared a high degree of nucleotide identity (97.0–99.4 %) with other DAdV-I reference strains. In pathogenicity studies, this isolated duck JSXZ strain reproduced similar egg-dropping symptoms in healthy breeding ducks, pathologic lesions of follicular hemorrhage, and the laid eggs in low fertilization and hatchability rates. Our research findings demonstrated that DAdV-I JSXZ strain was one of the causative agents of duck egg dropping syndrome in egg-laying ducks and could cause acute respiratory symptoms in ducklings. • This is the first time to report the complete viral genome of DAdV-1 in breeding ducks. • This study provides scientific evidence that DAdV-1 could be one of the pathogens of duck egg drop. • This study provides evidence of possible vertical transmission of DAdV-1. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2023
- Full Text
- View/download PDF