CHICKEN ANAEMIA VIRUS OUTBREAK IN CHICKENS IN SAUDI ARABIA

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 College of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Resources, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia

2 Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Cairo University, Egypt.

Abstract

In a poultry farm located in western province of Saudi Arabia, there was a complain of downgraded broiler carcasses at slaughter due to the presence of hemorrhages in the skeletal muscles of the birds. Accordingly, an investigation was. conducted concerning the outbreak. It revealed clinical and pathological findings consistent with chicken anemia virus (CAV) injection. The virus was demonstrated in the bone marrow of affected chickens. Further studies such as reproduction of the disease experimentally in chickens confirmed that the outbreak was due to CAV.

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