Adenovirus inclusion body ventriculitis in chickens and captive bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus).

Gizzard erosions and ulcers are associated with dietary deficiencies and toxins. A retrospective study of histopathology reports over an 8-year period (1985-92) found six cases of adenovirus inclusion body ventriculitis in broiler and leghorn chickens and captive bobwhite quail (Colinus viriginianus) in south Georgia. The relationship between intralesional virus and the pathogenesis of ventricular lesions in chicks and quail in the present study is not known.