Lymphoid Leucosis

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Lymphoid Leukosis is a disease that affects chickens caused by the retrovirus Avian leukosis virus.

It is a neoplastic disease caused by a virus of the leucosis which may take the form of a tumor of the bursa of Fabricius and metastasis to other tissues of the chicken and cause enlargement and swelling of the abdomen.