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| Author(s): |
Laura Yaneth Villareal Buitrago
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia (FMVZ/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2007-02-09 |
| Examining board members: |
Antônio José Piantino Ferreira;
Marcos Roberto Buim;
Fabio Gregori;
Paulo César Maiorka;
Leonardo José Richtzenhain
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| Advisor: | Antônio José Piantino Ferreira |
| Abstract | |
Infectious enteric diseases in poultry have a complex etiology and a worldwide distribution, causing large economic losses. Along with the possibility of single or multiple infections by different pathogens, enteric diseases may also be reflected in other systems, contributing even more to the fall of performance in the affected flocks. Recently, a coronavirus was detected in the intestinal contents of chickens with depigmentation and diarrhea. This virus, named CECoV (chicken enteric coronavirus), has been suggested as belonging to group 2, divergent of the common avian coronaviruses, which belongs to the group 3 of the genus Coronavirus. In Brazil, there is a great need for the knowledge on the role of viral agents in diarrhea of poultry, what is a fundamental step for the establishment of specific prophylactic measures and for the exportation of poultry-derived products. The present study aimed the detection of this group 2 coronavirus in broilers, laying hens and breeders with and without diarrhea using a PCR targeted to the gene coding for the RNA-dependent RNA-polymerase (RdRp) of group 2 coronaviruses, the establishment of the genealogical relationship among the different strains detected based on sequences of the RdRp, the genes coding for the spike protein (S gene), hemagglutinin-esterase protein (HE gene), gene 5, gene 3 and the 3\' UTR and the differential diagnosis with reovirus, rotavirus, enterotropic strains of infectious bronchitis virus (IBV), astrovirus and adenovirus. CECoV was found in 25 out of 119 samples of enteric contents of broilers, breeders and laying hens in different farms in Brazil using the PCR to the RdRp. CECoV has a role as a primary and secondary pathogen in pathological processes of the enteric tract of poultry and the phylogenetic analysis showed that different strains of CECoV formed an unique cluster based on the RdRp inside the group 2 of coronaviruses, harboring homology with group 3 coronaviruses in the 3\'UTR, being its origin suggested as a recombination event between coronaviruses of groups 2 and 3. By the establishment of a routine of diagnosis, the frequencies of enteric viruses in the 119 poultry farms surveyed were: rotavirus = 48.74%, reovirus = 2.52%, IBV = 65.54%, CECoV = 21% and astrovirus = 3.36%. (AU) | |