scholarly journals Selected aspects of infectious bursal disease – the current state of knowledge

2023 ◽  
Vol 74 (10) ◽  
pp. 6138-2023
Author(s):  
ANNA PIKUŁA ◽  
KRZYSZTOF ŚMIETANKA

Infectious bursal disease (IBD) is a highly infectious and contagious immunosuppressive viral disease of chickens with a worldwide economic significance to the poultry industry. Over fifty years have passed since the first confirmed occurrence of the disease, and the virus has spread all over world and evolved into multiple genetic, antigenic and pathotypic variants, becoming a serious threat to the poultry industry. The primary tool in IBD eradication is the maintenance of strict biosecurity in poultry farms and implementation of vaccination programmes which should take into account the current epidemiological knowledge about the IBDV strains circulating in the field. This review article presents the current state of knowledge about the infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV) with special regard to the molecular biology of the virus, immunological aspects, as well as current and future prevention strategies.

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Pikuła ◽  
Katarzyna Domańska-Blicharz ◽  
Rytis Cepulis ◽  
Krzysztof Śmietanka

AbstractIntroduction: Infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV) is a causative agent of immunosuppressive disorder resulting in significant losses to the world poultry industry. This study describes the molecular characterisation of an atypical IBDV from a field outbreak that occurred in vaccinated chicken flocks in Latvia in 2011.Material and Methods: Ten bursae of Fabricius from each flock were collected for laboratory examination. Virus isolation was performed in embryonated eggs and CEF culture. The RT-PCR aimed at hypervariable domain of VP2 gene combined with sequencing was performed for detection and identification of IBDV.Results: The molecular examinations confirmed the IBDV infection. The analysis of the amino acid sequence revealed that the strain possessed four amino acids at VP2 protein (222A, 256I, 294I, and 299S), indicating a genetic relatedness to a very virulent IBDV. However, some unique or rare amino acid substitutions (219L, 220F, 254D, 279N, and 280T) were also detected.Conclusion: The obtained results demonstrate the occurrence of IBDV with a high mutation rate within the hypervariable domain of VP2 peptide, and highlight the necessity of implementation of IBDV surveillance in Eastern European poultry industry to determine whether this strain is an exception or a new wave of IBDV with new genetic features emerged in the field.


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nan Jiang ◽  
Yulong Wang ◽  
Wenying Zhang ◽  
Xinxin Niu ◽  
Mengmeng Huang ◽  
...  

Infectious bursal disease (IBD) is an acute and highly contagious immunosuppressive disease caused by the infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV), which seriously threatens the healthy development of the poultry industry. Since its spread to China in the early 1990s, the very virulent IBDV (vvIBDV) characterized by high lethality, has been the focus of prevention and control. However, the novel variant IBDV (nVarIBDV), which has been widely prevalent in China since 2017, has brought a new threat to the poultry industry. In this study, the prevalence of IBDV in the important poultry-raising areas of China from 2019 to 2020 was detected. Of these, 45.1% (101/224) of the samples and 61.9% (26/42) of the chicken flocks were shown to be positive for IBDV. For 50 IBDVs, the sequences of the hypervariable region of the VP2 gene in segment A and of the B-marker of the VP1 gene in segment B were analyzed. The results revealed the coexistence of a number of different IBDV genotypes, including A2dB1 (nVar, 26/50, 52.0%), A3B3 (HLJ0504-like, 15/50, 30.0%), A1B1 (classical, 1/50, 2.0%), and A8B1 (attenuated, 1/50, 2.0%). This indicated that the newly emerging nVarIBDV of A2dB1 and the persistently circulating HLJ0504-like vvIBDV of A3B3 are the two important epidemic strains. Furthermore, we established that segment reassortment has occurred among these circulating strains. This study is the first to reveal the novel epidemic characteristics of IBDV since the report of the emerging nVarIBDV of A2dB1 in China.


Vaccines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 142
Author(s):  
Yulong Wang ◽  
Nan Jiang ◽  
Linjin Fan ◽  
Li Gao ◽  
Kai Li ◽  
...  

Infectious bursal disease (IBD), an immunosuppressive disease of young chickens, is caused by infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV). Novel variant IBDV (nVarIBDV), a virus that can evade immune protection against very virulent IBDV (vvIBDV), is becoming a threat to the poultry industry. Therefore, nVarIBDV-specific vaccine is much needed for nVarIBDV control. In this study, the VP2 protein of SHG19 (a representative strain of nVarIBDV) was successfully expressed using an Escherichia coli expression system and further purified via ammonium sulfate precipitation and size-exclusion chromatography. The purified protein SHG19-VP2-466 could self-assemble into 25-nm virus-like particle (VLP). Subsequently, the immunogenicity and protective effect of the SHG19-VLP vaccine were evaluated using animal experiments, which indicated that the SHG19-VLP vaccine elicited neutralization antibodies and provided 100% protection against the nVarIBDV. Furthermore, the protective efficacy of the SHG19-VLP vaccine against the vvIBDV was evaluated. Although the SHG19-VLP vaccine induced a comparatively lower vvIBDV-specific neutralization antibody titer, it provided good protection against the lethal vvIBDV. In summary, the SHG19-VLP candidate vaccine could provide complete immune protection against the homologous nVarIBDV as well as the heterologous vvIBDV. This study is of significance to the comprehensive prevention and control of the recent atypical IBD epidemic.


Pathogens ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 664
Author(s):  
Yufang Meng ◽  
Xiaoxue Yu ◽  
Chunxue You ◽  
Wenjuan Zhang ◽  
Yingfeng Sun ◽  
...  

Infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV) infection causes pathogenicity and mortality in chickens, leading to huge economic losses in the poultry industry worldwide. Studies of host-virus interaction can help us to better understand the viral pathogenicity. As a highly conservative host factor, heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70) is observed to be involved in numerous viral infections. However, there is little information about the role of chicken Hsp70 (cHsp70) in IBDV infection. In the present study, the increased expression of cHsp70 was observed during IBDV-infected DF-1 cells. Further studies revealed that Hsp70 had similar locations with the viral double-stranded RNA (dsRNA), and the result of pull-down assay showed the direct interaction between cHsp70 with dsRNA, viral proteins (vp)2 and 3, indicating that maybe cHsp70 participates in the formation of the replication and transcription complex. Furthermore, overexpression of cHsp70 promoted IBDV production and knockdown of cHsp70 using small interfering RNAs (siRNA) and reducedviral production, implying the necessity of cHsp70 in IBDV infection. These results reveal that cHsp70 is essential for IBDV infection in DF-1 cells, suggesting that targeting cHsp70 may be applied as an antiviral strategy.


2020 ◽  
pp. JVI.02017-20
Author(s):  
Laura Broto ◽  
Nicolás Romero ◽  
Fernando Méndez ◽  
Elisabet Diaz-Beneitez ◽  
Oscar Candelas-Rivera ◽  
...  

Infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV), the best characterized member of the Birnaviridae family, is a highly relevant avian pathogen causing both acute and persistent infections in different avian hosts. Here, we describe the establishment of clonal, long-term, productive persistent IBDV infections in DF-1 chicken embryonic fibroblasts. Although virus yields in persistently-infected cells are exceedingly lower than those detected in acutely infected cells, the replication fitness of viruses isolated from persistently-infected cells is higher than that of the parental virus. Persistently-infected DF-1 and IBDV-cured cell lines derived from them do not respond to type I interferon (IFN). High-throughput genome sequencing revealed that this defect is due to mutations affecting the IFNα/β receptor subunit 2 (IFNAR2) gene resulting in the expression of IFNAR2 polypeptides harbouring large C-terminal deletions that abolish the signalling capacity of IFNα/β receptor complex. Ectopic expression of a recombinant chicken IFNAR2 gene efficiently rescues IFNα responsiveness. IBDV-cured cell lines derived from persistently infected cells exhibit a drastically enhanced susceptibility to establishing new persistent IBDV infections. Additionally, experiments carried out with human HeLa cells lacking the IFNAR2 gene fully recapitulate results obtained with DF-1 cells, exhibiting a highly enhanced capacity to both survive the acute IBDV infection phase and to support the establishment of persistent IBDV infections. Results presented here show that the inactivation of the JAK-STAT signalling pathway significantly reduces the apoptotic response induced by the infection, hence facilitating the establishment and maintenance of IBDV persistent infections.IMPORTANCE Members of the Birnaviridae family, including infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV), exhibit a dual behaviour, causing acute infections that are often followed by the establishment of life-long persistent asymptomatic infections. Indeed, persistently infected specimens might act as efficient virus reservoirs, hence potentially contributing to virus dissemination. Despite the key importance of this biological trait, information about mechanisms triggering IBDV persistency is negligible. Our report evidences the capacity of IBDV, a highly relevant avian pathogen, to establishing long-term, productive, persistent infections in both avian and human cell lines. Data presented here provide novel and direct evidence about the crucial role of type I IFNs on the fate of IBDV-infected cells and their contribution to controlling the establishment of IBDV persistent infections. The use of cell lines unable to respond to type I IFNs opens a promising venue to unveiling additional factors contributing to IBDV persistency.


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