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Pathological Findings of Necrotizing Skeletal Myopathy in Layer Breeder Chickens  

권용국 (국립수의과학검역원 조류질병과)
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Korean Journal of Poultry Science / v.30, no.1, 2003 , pp. 55-59 More about this Journal
Abstract
A necrotizing skeletal myopathy was diagnosed in three flocks of 30,000 thirty-eight-week-old layer breeder chickens. The mortality attributed to the myopathy was 17.7%, 12.3% and 21.1% in flock A, B and C, respectively. Clinically, chickens were showed depression, anorexia, posterior paresis, inability to rise, incoordination, reluctance to move, and leg trembling and weakness. The most striking findings at necropsy was pale streaking in the muscles of the thighs and legs. Microscopic lesions included myofiber degeneration and necrosis with massive cellular proliferation interpreted as sarcolemmal nuclei proliferation. Plasma creatine kinase, asparte aminotransferase and akaline phosphatase were markedly elevated. In conclusion, author suggested that submitted chickens were affected by ionophores poisoning.
Keywords
myopathy; layer breeder; pathological findings; creatine kimase;
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