Infection and transmission dynamics of Turkey arthritis reovirus in different age Turkeys

Autor: Rahul Kumar, Tamer A. Sharafeldin, Sagar M. Goyal, Sunil K. Mor, Robert E. Porter
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Microbial pathogenesis. 173
ISSN: 1096-1208
Popis: Turkey arthritis reovirus (TARV) has been established as a cause of lameness in meat type turkeys in the past decade. However, no information is available on the age susceptibility of TARV or its transmission dynamics. We conducted this study to determine the age at which turkey poults are susceptible to TARV infection and whether infected birds can horizontally transmit the virus to their non-infected pen mates (sentinels). Five groups of turkeys were orally inoculated with TARV (∼10
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