Coinfection of parvovirus and astrovirus in gout‐affected goslings

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Abstract

Outbreaks of gosling gout have occurred in China since 2017 and caused a considerable economic impact on the poultry industry. While gosling astrovirus (GoAstV) is believed to be the main causal pathogen of gout, the full-blown disease of gout cannot be well reproduced by infecting the goslings with GoAstV, suggesting the possibility of other infectious agents being involved with the development of gosling gout. To assess other possible infectious agents, we collected tissues from gout-affected goslings in 12 goose farms in China, followed by PCR detection of GoAstV, goose reovirus (GRV), goose parvovirus (GPV), fowl adenovirus (FAdV), goose circovirus (GcoV), Tembusu virus (TMUV) and goose haemorrhagic polyomavirus (GHPV). Our data showed that all gout-affected goslings carried both of GoAstV and GPV determined by PCRs, and this was further confirmed by fluorescence multiplex immunohistochemical staining, and phylogenetic analysis of ORF2 gene of GoAstV and VP3 gene of GPV. In addition to the haemorrhage in the kidney, liver, spleen and lung of the gout-affected goslings, histological examinations showed also extensive infiltration of heterophil myelocytes in the kidney, liver, spleen, bursa of Fabricius, thymus, lungs and pancreas. Our findings strongly suggest that coinfection of GoAstV and GPV increases the severity of gout. While this is the first study to report GPV in gout-affected goslings, further studies including infection model are warranted to investigate the role of GPV and its coinfection with GoAstV in the development of gosling gout.

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