Colonization Pattern of Bordetella avium
in Experimental Infection of Chicken
Ping-Ping Yang, Xue Zhao, Jing-Jing Liu, Yuan-Li
Hao, Guan-Hua Liu, Xiao-Hua He and Rui-Liang Zhu*
College of Animal Science and Veterinary
Medicine, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai’an, Shandong 271000, PR China.
*Corresponding author:
zhurl@sdau.edu.cn
Abstract
To analyze pathogenicity changes of new isolate
LL09 from chick embryos, 120 1-day-old specific pathogen free (SPF) chickens
were intranasally inoculated with broth cultures of isolate LL09. Its
colonization pattern in different chicken tissues was studied by bacterial
isolation and indirect immunoenzyme histochemistry. Results showed that the
bacteria were isolated from tracheas and lungs at 1 h post-infection.
Afterwards, they colonized livers, hearts and spleens at 120 h and then infected
kidneys at 168 h. The peak infection appeared on 21 d post-infection. They
persisted in these organs and caused injuries up to 42 d. With growth of
chickens, B. avium began to be
gradually cleared away from livers, hearts and spleens, except that it could
still be detected in tracheas, lungs and kidneys until 56 d post-infection. It
demonstrated that lungs and kidneys would possible be colonized for a long time
by B. avium in addition to the
tracheas.