Gastrointestinal transit times in normal and reovirus-inoculated turkeys.
Brilliant pigment powder was used to measure minimum gastrointestinal transit times (GTT) in control and cloned-reovirus-inoculated turkey poults. Compared with controls, inoculated poults had longer GTT at 120 hr (P less than 0.05) but not at 24 and 72 hr after receiving a single oral dose of cloned reovirus. Reovirus inoculation was associated with failure to eat following a fasting period. Feces passed by reovirus-inoculated turkeys were more fluid and less well formed than normal.
D000818:Animals; D001066:Appetite; D004063:Digestion; D004064:Digestive System / Q000503:physiopathology; D004068:Digestive System Physiological Phenomena; D005215:Fasting; D005243:Feces; D012016:Reference Values; D012088:Reoviridae Infections / Q000503:physiopathology*; D014422:Turkeys