Oligonucleotide Fingerprinting of Ribonucleic Acids of Infectious Bronchitis Virus Strains

Development of attenuated vaccines from Taiwanese infectious bronchitis virus strains.

Due to variations in serotypes among different strains of avian infectious bronchitis viruses (IBV), vaccination of chicks with imported vaccines fails to protect them from IBV infections in Taiwan. Therefore, we develop attenuated vaccines from local strains in Taiwan. A Taiwan Group I (TW I) strain was passaged 74 times through specific pathogen-free (SPF) chicken embryonated eggs, and then t...

Isolation and Identification of Infectious Bronchitis Virus from Commercial Chickens

Emergence of variant avian infectious bronchitis virus in India

Background: Infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) is the etiological agent of an acute and highly contagious disease. Infectious bronchitis (IB) affects chicken of all ages and poses major economic loses to the poultry industry worldwide. The continuous evolution of the spike protein (S1) of IBV is responsible for the prevalence of many serotypes/genotypes around the world. Multipl...

Molecular Comparison of Three Different Regions of the Genome of Infectious Bronchitis Virus Field Isolates and Vaccine Strains

Rapid detection and differentiation of infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) involved in the disease outbreak is very important for controlling disease and developing new vaccines. In the present study, three regions of the genome of IBV vaccine and field isolates including S1 gene, gene 3 and nucleocapsid (N) gene along with 3' untranslated region (3' UTR) were amplified and subjected to restricti...

pH stability studies with avian infectious bronchitis virus (coronavirus) strains.

A comparison of 17 infectious bronchitis virus strains, using the same test procedure and assay system, demonstrated that stability at an acid pH is a variable characteristic of the avian coronaviruses.