Experimental infection of specific-pathogen-free turkey poults with single and combined enterovirus and group A rotavirus.
This study was designed to investigate the effects of orally administered single and combined enterovirus and group A rotavirus in specific-pathogen-free poults of different ages. Clinical signs, body-weight gain, D-xylose absorption, and morphometric analysis revealed that poults given the combined enterovirus/rotavirus inoculum were more severely affected than poults that received either inoculum alone. The poults developed a malabsorption syndrome early in the disease process, but by day 8 postinoculation poults had regained normal intestinal absorptive capacity. Poults inoculated with enterovirus alone at 2 and 3 weeks of age were more severely affected, as shown by some of the parameters measured, than those inoculated at 3 days of age.
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Food Animal Health Research Program, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, Ohio State University, Wooster.
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D000367:Age Factors; D000818:Animals; D004770:Enterovirus / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D004769:Enterovirus Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary*; D007421:Intestine, Small / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning / Q000662:veterinary; D011201:Poultry Diseases / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology; D012401:Rotavirus / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D012400:Rotavirus Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary*; D013047:Specific Pathogen-Free Organisms; D014422:Turkeys / Q000382:microbiology*; D015430:Weight Gain