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bursa of Fabricius

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bursa of Fa·bri·ci·us  (f-brsh-s, -brshs)
n.
A lymphoid gland in birds that is connected to the cloaca and is the site of B cell maturation.
[After Hieronymus Fabricius (1537-1619), Italian anatomist.]
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In Finland, a bird-pathogenic orthoreovirus was isolated in the same geographic region 6 years earlier from the bursa of Fabricius from common eider (Somateria mollissima) carcasses and was suspected to be the cause of their death (10).
Novel orthoreovirus from diseased crow, Finland by Huhtamo, Eili; Uzcategui, Nathalie Y.; Manni, Tytti; Munsterhjelm, Riggert; Brummer-Korvenkontio, Ma / Emerging Infectious Diseases
Abstract: Techniques for endoscopic biopsy of the spleen and bursa of Fabricius were evaluated in 71 juvenile and adult white Carneau pigeons (Columba livia).
Evaluation of coelioscopic splenic biopsy and cloacoscopic bursa of ... by Hernandez-Divers, Stephen J.; Wilson, G. Heather; Lester, Vanessa K.; Hernandez-Divers, Sonia M.; La / Journal of Avian Medicine and Surgery
Using the conventional PCR test, DuCV DNA was detected in 85 (84%) of 101 bursa of Fabricius samples from dead or sick ducks, between 1 and 12 weeks old, and in samples from 35 (94%) of 37 flocks.
Avian Pathol: Diagnosis of duck circovirus infections by conventional ... by Fringuelli, E.; Scott, A.N.J.; Beckett, A. / Journal of Avian Medicine and Surgery
 
 
 
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