Investigations of pathological immunohistochemical and immunocytochemical findings in natural infection with Mycoplasma gallisepticum in laying hens
Özdemir, ÖzgürYavuz, OrhanErer, HüdaverdiSayın, Zafer
Background: Mycoplasmosis is an infectious disease caused by Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG), usually seen in therespiratory system of chickens, chick and turkeys, that causing great economic loss. The disease is characterized by respiratory system lesions such as sinusitis, tracheitis, airsacculitis, pneumonia and other symptoms such as loss of yield, arthritis,tenosynovitis. In this study, it was aimed to investigate diagnose of the disease by pathologic and molecular techniquesin hens that naturally infected with MG as well as the usability of immunocytochemical (ICC) method in diagnose of thedisease.Materials, Methods & Results: For this purpose, 98 hens were collected from 10 different coops that serologically positive.After necropsy, routine pathological procedures were performed to samples taken from nose, sinus, larynx, trachea, lungand air sacs. Scraping samples taken from lungs and tracheas were evaluated by ICC. Immunohistochemical (IHC) stainingwas performed to samples taken from nose, sinus, larynx, trachea, lung and air sacs. Indirect immunoperoxidase methodwas applied in the both IHC and ICC staining. Rabbit polyclonal anti MG antibody was used as primer antibody in theIHC and ICC staining. Additionally, culture and PCR techniques were applied to tracheas of all hens for MG. The GPO3and MGSO genes were made for PCR analysis. In the tracheal examinations, 23 cases were positive for PCR, 17 casesICC positive, 16 cases IHC positive and 10 culture samples found positive. All of culture positive cases were also positivefor other three methods. When findings in all organs were evaluated, in 37 cases were detected positive by IHC (38%) and23 cases were positive by ICC (23.5%). In the IHC positive cases, the first order was trachea in 16 cases followed by in 11cases in sinus, in 8 cases in lung, in 6 cases air sac and 4 cases in nose, respectively. In 8 cases, IHC positivity was foundin at least two organs...(AU)
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