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Shell-Less Egg Syndrome (SES) Widespread in Western Canadian Layer Operations Is Linked to a Massachusetts (Mass) Type Infectious Bronchitis Virus (IBV) Isolate.
Viruses - 18 Aug 2018
Amarasinghe Aruna, Popowich Shelly, De Silva Senapathi Upasama, Abdul-Cader Mohamed Sarjoon, Marshall Frank, van der Meer Frank, Cork Susan C, Gomis Susantha, Abdul-Careem Mohamed Faizal
Abstract excerpt
A disease with a sudden drop in egg production and shell-less eggs called, shell-less egg syndrome (SES) has been observed in Western Canada egg layer flocks since 2010. The etiology of this disease is not known. We hypothesize that SES is caused by an infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) strain since it is known that IBV replicates in the shell gland causing various eggshell abnormalities. In this study, we...
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