Goose parvovirus

Goose parvovirus, also known as Derzsy's disease, is a highly contagious acute disease of young goslings and Muscovy ducks that causes fatal goose hepatitis. Mortality rates reach 70-100% in goslings less than 4 weeks old and mortality decreases with increasing age. In adult poultry the disease is asymptomatic (vironosichi). The pathogen is goose parvovirus (GPV).

Sick goslings do not accept feed or water and squeal, and there is apathy, coldness, conjunctivitis, reddening of the skin, loss of feathers on the back and neck, and diarrhoea. Liver and heart damage also occurs. Some goslings die with no clinical signs.

Description

Testing options:

  • virological testing - PCR

Samples suitable for PCR testing: cloacal swabs, organ samples (liver, kidney, heart, intestine)

Virology and serology

MVDr. Jitka Horníčková
+420 604 917 488
jitka.hornickova@svupraha.cz

Molecular biology

RNDr. Alexander Nagy, Ph.D.
+420 770 118 897
alexander.nagy@svupraha.cz

Information and Results

Ester Kučerová
+420 251 031 302
ester.kucerova@svupraha.cz

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