This is the preliminary. Final I have not gotten yet.
FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE & CONSUMER SERVICES Bronson Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory PO Box 458006 Kissimmee FL 34745-8006 Phone: (321) 697-1499 Fax: (321) 697-1467
Accession No: K1405566
Report Date: 5/15/2014
Preliminary Report Date Received: 5/13/2014
Collection Date: 5/10/2014
Case Coordinator: Gizela Maldonado, DVM
Accession No: K1405566
Associated Parties
Owner, Submitter: Karen Fletcher
Purpose of Test
Diagnostic-Necropsy
Animal Information
Chicken ; Chicken - Ameraucana; Female
History
Printed
6 years Hen. she recently had an ear infection. Wasting noted this past month. I believe the flock has Marek's Virus. Exposure started 4 years ago.
Pending Tests
Test: Molecular Biology Avian Influenza Matrix RRT-PCR
Number of specimens with unreviewed results: 1
Test: Molecular Biology Avian Paramyxovirus-1 (APMV-1) Matrix RRT-PCR
Number of specimens with unreviewed results: 1
Test: Virology Send Out (Test to be Performed at TVMDL)
Number of specimens in which test results are pending: 1
Test: Bacteriology/Mycology Aerobic Culture
Number of specimens in which test results are pending: 1
Lab Findings
*All Testing done at BADDL unless otherwise indicated Necropsy
Specimen
Chicken - AVIAN - Chicken - Ameraucana - Female
Animal-Dead - 1
Gross Exam Poultry (N.GEP)
Submitted to necropsy was the carcass of a six year-old, female Americana breed chicken that weighted 1.490 kg. The carcass was in fair nutritional condition, quality of the feathers was adequate. In general all mucosas revealed a deep yellow color (jaundice). The subcutaneous tissue also revealed a dark yellowish discoloration.
Tongue, eyeballs, infraorbital nasal sinuses, nasopharynx, trachea, and esophagus did not reveal any
obvious gross lesions.
One of the lungs revealed a firm, grayish-white and somewhat demarcated mass that measured 0.5 x 0.5 cm. The air sacs showed no lesions.
The right ventricle of the heart lodged thick clots of fibrin (chicken fat-type fibrin).
The liver was unctuous and friable, was enlarged and showed a grayish-yellow discoloration.
The kidneys were pale.
Spleen was enlarged and markedly congested.
The ovaries did not contain any obviously active or engorged follicles.
GROSS MORPHOLOGICAL DIAGNOSES:
Jaundice.
Pulmonary neoplasia VS granuloma, chronic, well demarcated. Lungs.
Lymphoreticular hyperplasia, chronic, mild, chronic. spleen.
Hepatic lipidosis, chronic, diffuse, severe and intralesional hepatonecrosis, acute, mild, Liver.
TESTS PENDING: PCR (avian influenza and exotic Newcastle disease), bacteriology (fungal and aerobic culture on lung tissue), Marek’s PCR (send out).
FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE & CONSUMER SERVICES Bronson Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory PO Box 458006 Kissimmee FL 34745-8006 Phone: (321) 697-1499 Fax: (321) 697-1467
Accession No: K1405566
Report Date: 5/15/2014
Preliminary Report Date Received: 5/13/2014
Collection Date: 5/10/2014
Case Coordinator: Gizela Maldonado, DVM
Accession No: K1405566
Associated Parties
Owner, Submitter: Karen Fletcher
Purpose of Test
Diagnostic-Necropsy
Animal Information
Chicken ; Chicken - Ameraucana; Female
History
Printed
6 years Hen. she recently had an ear infection. Wasting noted this past month. I believe the flock has Marek's Virus. Exposure started 4 years ago.
Pending Tests
Test: Molecular Biology Avian Influenza Matrix RRT-PCR
Number of specimens with unreviewed results: 1
Test: Molecular Biology Avian Paramyxovirus-1 (APMV-1) Matrix RRT-PCR
Number of specimens with unreviewed results: 1
Test: Virology Send Out (Test to be Performed at TVMDL)
Number of specimens in which test results are pending: 1
Test: Bacteriology/Mycology Aerobic Culture
Number of specimens in which test results are pending: 1
Lab Findings
*All Testing done at BADDL unless otherwise indicated Necropsy
Specimen
Chicken - AVIAN - Chicken - Ameraucana - Female
Animal-Dead - 1
Gross Exam Poultry (N.GEP)
Submitted to necropsy was the carcass of a six year-old, female Americana breed chicken that weighted 1.490 kg. The carcass was in fair nutritional condition, quality of the feathers was adequate. In general all mucosas revealed a deep yellow color (jaundice). The subcutaneous tissue also revealed a dark yellowish discoloration.
Tongue, eyeballs, infraorbital nasal sinuses, nasopharynx, trachea, and esophagus did not reveal any
obvious gross lesions.
One of the lungs revealed a firm, grayish-white and somewhat demarcated mass that measured 0.5 x 0.5 cm. The air sacs showed no lesions.
The right ventricle of the heart lodged thick clots of fibrin (chicken fat-type fibrin).
The liver was unctuous and friable, was enlarged and showed a grayish-yellow discoloration.
The kidneys were pale.
Spleen was enlarged and markedly congested.
The ovaries did not contain any obviously active or engorged follicles.
GROSS MORPHOLOGICAL DIAGNOSES:
Jaundice.
Pulmonary neoplasia VS granuloma, chronic, well demarcated. Lungs.
Lymphoreticular hyperplasia, chronic, mild, chronic. spleen.
Hepatic lipidosis, chronic, diffuse, severe and intralesional hepatonecrosis, acute, mild, Liver.
TESTS PENDING: PCR (avian influenza and exotic Newcastle disease), bacteriology (fungal and aerobic culture on lung tissue), Marek’s PCR (send out).
