A reovirus isolated from turkeys is pathogenic to chickens, causing myocarditis among other conditions, but cross-protection is possible with chicken reovirus antiserum.
Turkey reovirus may induce myocarditis in chickens; leaves open cross-species models and antiserum strategies pending mammalian validation.
A viral agent that was isolated from livers of commercial turkey poults that died at approximately two weeks of age was characterized as a reovirus. Experimental infection of day-old chickens with this reovirus isolate resulted in the development of tenosynovitis, hepatitis, and myocarditis. In vitro neutralization of the turkey reovirus isolate by antiserum against chicken reovirus correlated with in vivo protection of maternally immune chickens from day-old oral challenge with the turkey reovirus isolate.
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