Naturally Occurring Reticuloendotheliosis in Turkeys: Transmission

This report describes the natural occurrence and experimental transmission of reticuloendotheliosis in a turkey flock. In the naturally affected turkeys, lesions were present in the liver, spleen, heart, intestines, and peripheral nerves, and were composed mainly of Iymphoreticular cells. The diseas...

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Published in:JNCI : Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1976-02, Vol.56 (2), p.419-422
Main Authors: Paul, Prem S., Pomeroy, Kern A., Sarma, Padman S., Terabe, Keisuke, Johnson, Kenneth H., Barnes, Donald M., Kumar, Mahesh C., Pomeroy, Benjamin S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animals
Neoplasms, Experimental - etiology
Poultry Diseases - epidemiology
Poultry Diseases - microbiology
Poultry Diseases - pathology
Retroviridae - isolation & purification
Turkeys
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Summary:This report describes the natural occurrence and experimental transmission of reticuloendotheliosis in a turkey flock. In the naturally affected turkeys, lesions were present in the liver, spleen, heart, intestines, and peripheral nerves, and were composed mainly of Iymphoreticular cells. The disease was experimentally reproduced in turkey poults with cellfree tissue extracts of infected birds. A type-e RNA virus similar to reticuloendothetiosis virus (strain T) was present in the tissues of turkey poults experimentally inoculated. This virus was unrelated to the type-C RNA viruses of the avian leukosis sarcoma complex.
ISSN:0027-8874
1460-2105
DOI:10.1093/jnci/56.2.419