Avian reovirus strains 81-5 and 176 are highly pathogenic in chicks, causing severe mortality and various lesions including pericarditis and myocarditis.
Supports reovirus strains as avian myocarditis models; leaves open translation to human disease.
Reovirus strains CO8 and 81-5, isolated from chickens with malabsorption syndrome, and reovirus strain 176, isolated from chickens with tenosynovitis, were each individually inoculated into 1-day-old specific-pathogen-free chicks. Strain CO8 caused tenosynovitis and pericarditis following footpad inoculation, but it was of low pathogenicity when given by either oral or subcutaneous route. In contrast, strains 81-5 and 176 were highly pathogenic and caused severe mortality following subcutaneous inoculation. Lesions included hepatic necrosis, bursal atrophy, thymitis, and splenic hyperplasia; strain 81-5 also caused pericarditis and myocarditis. Although strain 176 caused higher mortality than strain 81-5, these two strains differed little in the severity and distribution of the lesions they caused. No signs or lesions of typical malabsorption syndrome were observed.
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