• 한국가금학회지
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• 제44권4호
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• pp.225-233
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• 2017

Chicken production remains the foremost endeavor in the Nigerian livestock industry. However, disease incidence has been a major constraint on the growth of this subsector. This study assessed health management practices and disease incidence in smallholder chicken production enterprise in Southwest Nigeria using data from a farm survey of 240 farmers selected using a multistage sampling technique from 5 of 6 states in Southwest Nigeria. The study showed that vaccination was given by 96.8% of the famers, 97.8% dewormed their chickens, and 92.9% disinfected the coops against diseases. However, 37% of the farmers regularly consulted veterinarians, 25.7% consulted them during disease outbreaks, and 34.2% occasionally consulted veterinarians. Infectious bursal disease (IBD), coccidiosis, and chronic respiratory disease (CRD) were the major diseases reported by 17.1%, 12.9%, and 7.1% of the farmers, respectively. Mortality rate was 37.8%, although this varied with disease. However, there was a growth of 157.4% in stock size between the establishment of the farms and the survey period.

• 한국가금학회지
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.89-96
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• 2011

몽골 산란계 농장에서 발생한 뉴캣슬병 사례로부터 뉴캣슬병 바이러스를 분리하고 그 특성을 조사하였다. 그 결과, 발생 농장 산란계 폐사계의 뇌 및 폐 조직으로부터 뉴캣슬병 바이러스 MN1/10 주가 분리되었다. 이 바이러스는 F 단백질 분절 부위가 특징적인 병원성 motif(RRQKRF)를 가지고 있었으며 종란 평균 치사 지수(MDT)가 54.7시간으로 강독형 NDV이었다. 또한 발생 농장 내 생존하고 있는 산란계에서 고역가의 NDV 특이항체가 검출되었다. 유적학적 계통 분석을 실시한 결과, 몽골 분리주는 Class II에 속하는 genotype VIId 바이러스로 확인되었다. 유전학적 계통 분석 결과, 몽골 분리주는 몽골과 인접한 중국에서 유행하는 바이러스 그룹(CN2)에 속하는 것으로 분류되었다. 우리의 연구 결과는 몽골에서의 뉴캣슬병 최초 발생은 동북아시아 지역에서 유행하는 강독형 NDV의 유입에 의해서 이루어졌음을 말해 준다.

• 한국가금학회지
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.23-27
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• 2005

가금 추백리와 밀접한 관계가 있는 단백질을 동정하기 위하여 인위적으로 추백리를 유도한 개체와 정상인 개체의 간에서 단백질을 추출하였으며, 2차원 전기영동(2DE)과 mass spectrometry(MS)를 이용하여 차등 발현되는 단백질을 조사하였다. 총 300여개의 단백질 spot들이 관찰되었으며, 이중 발현양에 현저한 차이를 보이는 spot을 MALDI-TOF MS와 protein database search를 통해 분석한 결과, 가금 APOAI (Apolipoprotein A1)으로 확인되었다. 추백리가 감염된 닭의 간에서 APOA1 단백질의 증가는 손상된 혈관의 재생과 밀접한 관계가 있으며 추백리의 감염 여부를 나타내 주는 Bio-marker로서 활용될 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.379-386
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• 2004

This paper deals with a mixed logit model for vaccination data. The effect of a newly developed vaccine for a certain chicken disease can be evaluated by a noninfection rate after injecting chicken with the disease vaccine. But there are a lot of factors that might affect the noninfecton rate. Some of these are fixed and others are random. Random factors are sometimes coming from the sampling scheme for choosing experimental units. This paper suggests a mixed model when some fixed factors need to have different experimental sizes by an experimental design and illustrates how to estimate parameters in a suggested model.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.85-87
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• 2013

An outbreak of Staphylococcus aureus infections occurred in a university with an enrollment of 80 students in the city of Daejon, Republic of Korea. All nine S. aureus isolates from patients (n = 7), staff members (n = 1), and the fried chicken served as the lunch (n = 1) harbored the enterotoxin A gene and showed an identical antibioticresistant profile, PFGE banding pattern (STAS16.001), and sequence type, ST 6. These results suggested that the outbreak was associated with eating the fried chicken that had been handled by an infected staff member. This case report demonstrated a practical approach to identifying the source and transmission of an infection.

• Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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• 제60권1호
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• pp.2.1-2.5
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• 2018

Infectious Bursal Disease is a severe viral disease of chicken responsible for serious economic losses to poultry farmers. The causative agent, Infectious Bursal Disease virus, is inhibited by nitric oxide. Root extract of the Indian ginseng, Withania somnifera, inhibits Infectious Bursal Disease virus in vitro. Also, Withania somnifera root extract is known to induce nitric oxide production in vitro. Therefore, the present study was undertaken to determine if the inhibitory activity of Withania somnifera against Infectious Bursal Disease virus was based on the production of nitric oxide. We show that besides other mechanisms, the inhibition of Infectious Bursal Disease virus by Withania somnifera involves the production of nitric oxide. Our results also highlight the paradoxical role of nitric oxide in the pathogenesis of Infectious Bursal Disease.

• 한국가금학회지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.175-192
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• 1989

한국 양계의 성장기이었던 1971년부터 1988년까지 최근 18연간 국내 양계농가로부터 농촌진흥청 가축위생연구소에 의뢰된 닭 가검물의 병성감정결과 질병검색된 총 9,012건 중 전염성 질병으로 진단된 6,181건에 대하여 검색 연도별, 계절별 및 일영별 검색상황을 조사 분석하였던 바 다음과 같은 결과를 얻었다. 1. 연도별 전염성 질병의 검색률은 49.3％(1973연)∼78.3％(1985년)로써 연평균 68.6％로 나타나 비전염성 질병(31.42％)보다는 월등히 높았다. 2. 전염성 질병 중에는 세균성이 32.6％(16.2∼42.5％)로 가장 높았고 다음 바이러스성 질병이 26.3％(21.8∼38.1％)이었으며 기생충성 및 곰팡이성 질병은 각각 7.7％ 및 2.1％의 낮은 검색율을 나타내었다. 3. 세균성 질병으로는 마이코프라스마병, 대장균증 및 포도상구균증의 연평균검색률이 각각 8.8％, 8.5％, 5.8％로 가장 높았으며, 다음 살모넬라균증, 추백리, 난황염 및 수란괌염이 각각 0.8∼1.5％ 이었고 피부염(0.2％) 및 연쇄상구균증(0.1％)은 매우 낮은 빈도로 검색되었다. 4. 바이러스성 질병중에는 임파성 백혈병 및 마렉병이 각각 연평균 7.5％ 및 7.2％로 가장 많았고 다음 뉴캣슬병(4.4％), 전염성 후두기관염(2.0％), 전염성 낭병(1. 7％) 및 조뇌척수염(1.0％)의 순이었으며 그 외 전염성 기관지염, 산란저하증 '76 및 봉입체간염 등이 각각 1.0％, 미만으로 검색되었다. 5. 기생충성 질병의 검색률에 있어서는 닭 콕시듐병이 연평균 4.5％로 가장 높았고 다음 회염증이 1.4％이었다. 그 외에 류코싸이토준병 흑두병, 맹장충증 및 외부기생충증이 각각 0.2∼0.7％의 낮은 비율로 검색되었다. 곰팡이성 질병으로는 곰팡이성 폐렴이 연평균 2.0％, 다음으로 캔디다증이 0.1％ 검색되었다. 6. 계절별 전염성 질병의 검색은 하계 및 추계절에 각각 27.7％ 검색되어 가장 높았으며 다음 동계(23.5％) 및 춘계절의 순으로 낮았다. 이들중 세균성, 바이러스성 및 곰팡이성 질병은 이와 유사한 경향이었으나 기생충성 질병은 하계 및 추계절에서의 검색률이 각각 34.3％ 및 39.5％로 다른 계절에 비하여 월등히 높았다. 7. 세균성 포도장구균증은 추계절에서의 검색율이 가장 높았으며, 바이러스성 질병으로는 마렉병, 전염성 후두기관염 및 전염성 낭병은 하계절에, 그리고 임파성백혈병, 계두 및 산란저하증 '76은 추계절에서 가장 높았으며 전염성 기관지염은 동계절에 최고빈도로 검색되었다. 기생충성 질병에 있어서는 콕시듐병을 위시하여 회충증, 류코싸이토준병 및 흑두병등 대부분의 주요질병이 하계절 및 추계절에 가장 많이 검색되었다. 8. 닭 일영별 전염성 질병의 검색률은 육성계(30∼150일영)에서 47.4％의 가장 높은 검색률을 나타내었고 다음 성계(150일영이상)에서 35.3％ 및 유추(30 일영미만)에서 17.3％의 순이었다. 이중 세균성 및 기생충성 질병은 육성계에서의 검색률이 가장 높았으나, 바이러스성 질병은 육성계 및 성계에서 거의 같은 비율로 높았으며 곰팡이성 질병은 유추에서 가장 높은 검색률을 나타내었다.

• IMMUNE NETWORK
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.34-41
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• 2013

Interleukin-18 (IL-18) has been known to induce interferon-${\gamma}$ (IFN-${\gamma}$) production and promote Th1 immunity. Although mammalian IL-18 has been characterized in great detail, the properties and application of chicken IL-18 remain largely uninvestigated as of yet. In this study, we evaluated the immunomodulatory properties of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium expressing chicken interleukin-18 (chIL-18) on immune responses induced by avian influenza (AI) and Newcastle disease (ND) vaccines. After oral administration of S. enterica serovar Typhimurium expressing chIL-18, chickens were vaccinated intramuscularly with the recommended dose of either inactivated AI H9N2 vaccine or ND (B1 strain) vaccine. Chickens receiving a primary vaccination were boosted using the same protocol 7 days later. Humoral and cell-mediated immune responses were evaluated in terms of HI antibody titers and proliferation and mRNA expression of IFN-${\gamma}$ and IL-4 of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) in response to specific antigen stimulation. According to our results, oral administration of S. enterica serovar Typhimurium expressing chIL-18 induced enhanced humoral and Th1-biased cell-mediated immunity against AI and ND vaccines, compared to that of chickens received S. enterica serovar Typhimurium harboring empty vector. Therefore, we conclude that our proposed vaccination regimen using inactivated AI and ND viruses along with oral administration of S. enterica serovar Typhimurium expressing chIL-18 may provide a novel approach in protecting chicken from currently circulating AI and ND virus strains.

• 대한수의학회지
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.77-86
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• 2003

Pullorum disease due to Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica bioserovar Pullorum (S. pullorum) is reported to be an endemic disease in domestic poultry flocks. The pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) subtyping method was used to assess the extent of genetic diversity and clonality of most of salmonella serotypes and other diverse bacterial species from animals and environmental samples in worldwide. Nowadays, PFGE has already been evaluated as a gold standards for molecular subtyping of salmonella serotypes compared with other molecular analysis methods. PFGE of XbaI digested chromosomal DNA from 23 strains of S. pullorum gave 5 distinctive pulsotypes (from SXPI to SXPV) with 5% confidence range of Dice coefficients, indicating that PFGE is very discriminative and that multiple clones of S. pullorum have been existed and diffused all of domestic poultry flocks industries since 1995. Two dominant pulsogroups (SXA & SXB) appeared as a major clones in this country, because they had consistently been recovered from diverse sources including both chicken organs and raw feed materials between 1995 and 1998. In addition, the matching percentage of PFGE profiles (PFP) among strains from both chickens and feed ingredients provides indirect evidence of the possible transmission of pullorum disease from contaminated raw feed ingredients for chicken production. In calculating of discrimination index (DI) for PFGE method by Simpson's index, DI was appeared as 0.917. Therefore, this index suggested that the present PFGE would seem to be a desirable and confident molecular typing method for S. pullorum strains. To our knowledge for pullorum disease, this is the first study to compare S. pullorum strains from chicken organs and feed samples using the PFGE.

• 대한수의학회지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.157-161
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• 1971

This experiment was undertaken in order to investigate whether chicken can serve as a carrier for swine lungworm, Metastrongylus apri. The results abtained are summerized as follows: All chickens which were fed the infective larvae of M. apri, in the form of infected earthworm (Eisenia foctida) excreted appreximately 4.4 to 5.4 percent of the infective larvae in their feces between 2 to 10 hours after dosing. The larval excretion was marked especially during the first 2 hours. A few (0.10~0.12%) larvae were detected from the intestinal wall of chickens by pepsin-digestion method on a day after dosing, but no further migration or development of the larvae was observed. The larvae which had passed through the digestive tract of chickens retained their viability and produced characteristic lungworm disease when inoculated to guineapigs. From these results, it may he concluded that the chicken can serve as a carrier for the infective larvae of M. apri.