An outbreak of goose parvovirus infection in Japan

J Vet Med Sci. 1995 Aug;57(4):777-9. doi: 10.1292/jvms.57.777.

Abstract

In a Muscovy duck breeding-growing farm in Aomori prefecture, most of ducklings hatched during spring in 1994 died within two-week-old. The mortality was nearly 100%. In most cases, birds died without clinical signs and some with leg weakness. By serological and virological tests, the outbreak was identified as a goose parvovirus infection. In pathological test, however, no typical manifestations of goose parvovirus infections (hepatitis and intranuclear inclusion bodies in hepatic cells) were detected.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Bacteria / isolation & purification
  • Bacterial Infections / diagnosis
  • Bacterial Infections / veterinary
  • Disease Outbreaks / veterinary*
  • Geese*
  • Japan / epidemiology
  • Muscle, Skeletal / pathology
  • Neutralization Tests
  • Parvoviridae Infections / epidemiology
  • Parvoviridae Infections / mortality
  • Parvoviridae Infections / veterinary*
  • Parvovirus*
  • Poultry Diseases / epidemiology*
  • Poultry Diseases / mortality