Image Database: Newcastle Disease

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Photo #: ND_001
Description:
Chicken. The comb is markedly edematous and contains multiple foci of hemorrhage.
Credit: PIADC
   

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Photo #: ND_002
Description:
Avian, skin. There is a marked hemorrhage of the comb, wattle, and adjacent skin.
Credit: AFIP
   

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Photo #: ND_003
Description:
Avian, skin. There is marked hemorrhage of the comb and head, with cyanosis of the margin of the comb.
Credit: California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory System
   

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Photo #: ND_004
Description:
Avian, eye. Conjunctival hemorrhage is most severe in the nictitans.
Credit: California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory System
   

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Photo #: ND_005
Description:
Avian, oral cavity. Numerous clumps of fibrinonecrotic exudate adhere to foci of necrosis in the oral, pharyngeal, and esophageal mucosa.
Credit: California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory System
   

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Photo #: ND_006
Description:
Avian, trachea. Tracheal and laryngeal mucosa contain many foci of hemorrhage and small clumps of fibrinonecrotic exudate.
Credit: California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory System
   

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Photo #: ND_007
Description:
Avian, skin. There is marked subcutaneous edema in the neck, extending to the thoracic inlet.
Credit: California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory System
   

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Photo #: ND_008
Description:
Avian, ceca. Hyperemic, necrotic cecal tonsils are visible from the serosal surface.
Credit: California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory System
   

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Photo #: ND_009
Description:
Avian, ceca. The cecal tonsil is red-brown, thickened, and friable (necrotic).
Credit: California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory System
   

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Photo #: ND_010
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Avian, rectum. There are multiple linear mucosal hemorrhages.
Credit: California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory System
   

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Photo #: ND_011
Description:
Avian, cloaca. The mucosa is hyperemic and contains foci of hemorrhage.
Credit: California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory System
   

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Photo #: ND_012
Description:
Avian, colon. The mucosa contains multiple sharply demarcated foci of hemorrhage and necrosis.
Credit: California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory System
   

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Photo #: ND_013
Description:
Avian, proventriculus. The proximal mucosa is eroded and covered by a fibrinonecrotic (diphtheritic) membrane.
Credit: California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory System
   

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Photo #: ND_014
Description:
Avian, cecal tonsil necrosis.
Credit: California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory System
   

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Photo #: ND_015
Description:
Avian, diphtheritic laryngo-tracheitis
Credit: California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory System
   

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Photo #: ND_016
Description:
Avian, segmental intestinal necrosis, mucosal.
Credit: California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory System
   

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Photo #: ND_017
Description:
Avian, segmental intestinal necrosis, mucosal.
Credit: California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory System
   

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These images were annotated by Dr. Steve Sorden and funding was provided by a USDA Higher Education Challenge Grant in collaboration with the Iowa State University Department of Veterinary Pathology, Center for Food Security and Public Health, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, and Plum Island Animal Disease Center.