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Results revealed JR ducks exhibited lower morbidity (85.63% vs. 100%) and mortality (68.75% vs. 88.76%) than WK ducks under identical infection conditions. Susceptible individuals in both breeds showed severe weight loss, splenomegaly, and multiorgan histopathological damage. Conversely, phenotype-specific resilience differed by breed: R-JR ducks maintained stable body weight, normal spleen indices, and minimal lesions versus weight loss, splenomegaly, and pathological persistence in R-WK ducks. Furthermore, S-JR ducks exhibited elevated tumor necrosis factor-<jats:italic>\u03b1<\/jats:italic> (TNF-<jats:italic>\u03b1<\/jats:italic>) with down-regulated IgA, interferon-<jats:italic>\u03b3<\/jats:italic> (IFN-\u03b3), interleukin-22 (IL-22), IL-4, and IL-10 whereas R-JR ducks maintained stable IgA\/Th1\/Th2 cytokines with elevated IL-17A. In contrast, S-WK ducks exhibited elevated IgM\/IgG\/TNF-<jats:italic>\u03b1<\/jats:italic> with static IgA levels, and decreased IL-17A, while R-WK ducks showed lower IgM with stable IgG\/Th1\/Th2\/Th17 level S relative to S-WK ducks. Furthermore, pathological iron accumulation occurred in all infected WK ducks but not resistant JR ducks. 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