Experimental Reproduction of Turkey Syndrome ’65 with Mycoplasma meleagridis

Abstract

Two experiments are described in which attempts were made to reproduce Turkey Syndrome ’65 by infecting turkey hatching eggs and day-old turkey poults with Mycoplasma meleagridis. A high proportion of poults hatched from artificially injected eggs developed the syndrome. A lower proportion of poults infected at 1 day old by the air sac route also developed skeletal deformities. T.S. 65 was not produced by instillation of M. meleagridis into the nostrils of day-old poults.