CONCURRENT EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION OF E. COLI AND NEWCASTLE DISEASE VIRUS IN TURKEYS.

One thousand six hundred day old poults were randomly divided into four pens of 400 each. Twenty-five percent the birds in 3 and 4 inoculated orally, with Eschericia coli (E. coli) 0111ab. Ten pen 2 inoculated, intratracheally 10°EIDso Newcastle disease virus (NDV), A1.315/12 10 (previously exposed to E. 0111ab) also NDV. A total 19 0111ab recoveries, was made out 200 that 4. Sampling liver superior sampling either caecal junction or yolk sac E recoveries. Airsacculitis first observed dying at weeks age, but severity lesions maximum 7 age. High mortality morbidity commercial farms epizootics concurrent infections NDV, not this study.