During the period from July 2002 to June 2003, infectious bursal disease (IBD) was suspected in 101 commercial flocks of broiler chickens on the basis of clinical and post mortem findings in some districts of the Haryana state, India. Bursal samples were collected randomly from 20 flocks for the detection of infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV) by reverse transcriptionpolymerase chain reactio...

Infectious bursal disease (IBD), commonly known as “Gumboro Disease is an infectious viral disease of chickens inducing severe immunosuppression. In Pakistan, imported vaccine is used to prevent the disease but there have been outbreaks even in vaccinated flocks. This indicates that there is variation among the locally prevalent viral strains and commercially available vaccine strain. In presen...