A 13-year old girl presented with a decade long anemia, diffuse alveolar hemorrhage and interstistial lung disease; was eventually diagnosed as ANCA associated vasculitis. High index of suspicion is thus warranted for alternative diagnosis in chronic anemia, despite increased prevalence of infectious diseases and nutritional anemia.

INFECTIOUS ANEMIA, or swamp fever, also known in some sections of the United States as malarial fever, slow fever, and mountain fever, is one of the most serious maladies of the horse, and because of its insidious nitture and widespread distribution it has become a problem of world-wide concern. Infectious anemia is an acute or chronic disease of equines, caused by a filtrable virus that poison...

An attempt was made to standardize an in-house immuno-enzyme assay for measuring antibodies of infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV) in chicken. The test was performed after coating plates with ELISA antigens prepared by two methods. Antigen “A” was prepared from infectious bursal disease virus infected chicken embryo fibroblasts culture by concentration with dialysis against PEG-6000 while an...

Outdoor or organic farming demands robust chickens that are able to combat common infections before they spread to the flock. Priming the immune system of the chickens early in life with micro-organisms that they will encounter later in life prepares chickens to a life in environments where they are subjected to a more natural level of infection pressure. Also, exposure to non-infectious stress...

Iron deficiency anemia is thought to affect the health of more than one billion people worldwide, with the greatest burden of disease experienced in lesser developed countries, particularly women of reproductive age and children. This greater disease burden is due to both nutritional and infectious etiologies. Individuals in lesser developed countries have diets that are much lower in iron, les...

A murine retrovirus encoding the middle T protein of polyomavirus infected and transfornmed nonestablished chicken embryo cells. The infected cultures formed colonies in soft agar-containing medium and released infectious transforming virus. Middle T protein expressed in the transformed chicken cells associated with p60'csl and, in immunoprecipitates, enhanced the tyrosine protein kinase activi...

Aim: Chicken infectious anemia virus (CIAV) causes immunosuppression leading to serious losses in chickens. Though CIAV has been reported in commercial chickens from many countries of the world, no information is available on CIAV from Grenada. This paper reports the result of a serological survey of CIAV in layer and broiler chickens in Grenada. Materials and Methods: A total of 226 serum samp...