| prevalence of parasitism by amblyomma americanum on wild turkey poults as influenced by prescribed burning. | captive-raised eastern wild turkey (meleagris gallopavo silvestris) poults were allowed to forage on either recently burned plots or on plots that had not been burned during the previous 3 years. following a two hour exposure on the study plots, external parasites were recovered from all poults. the louse (menacanthus stramineus) and the lone star tick (amblyomma americanum) were the only parasites recovered. fifty-nine poults exposed to the burned plots had a significantly (p less than 0.001) l ... | 1979 | 459047 |
| capillariasis in penned wild turkeys. | capillariasis caused by capillaria annulata was associated with dilated crops, emaciation and mortality of 23 juvenile wild turkeys (meleagris gallopavo silvestris) in a captive flock. gross lesions in the crops ranged from slithtly-thickened lining folds to a thick necrotic diphtheritic membrane covering the entire inside surface. the parasites were in the squamous epithelium. hygromycin controlled the outbreak. | 1979 | 501843 |
| absence of avian pox in wild turkeys in central mississippi. | eastern wild turkeys (meleagris gallopavo silvestris) (n = 1,023), obtained during winter, spring, and summer from 1983 to 1988 on tallahala wildlife management area (twma) (jasper county, mississippi, usa) were examined for avian pox lesions. domestic turkey poults (n = 152) maintained on the area for 1 to 2 wk periods from 1987 to 1989 also were examined. neither wild nor domestic birds showed gross evidence of pox virus infection. this study indicated that avian pox was not endemic in wild tu ... | 1991 | 1656106 |
| multiple feather follicle cysts in a wild turkey. | a hunter-killed wild turkey (meleagris gallopavo silvestris) was submitted for examination because of numerous 2 to 30 mm diameter, yellowish, hard nodules in the skin. the nodules were confined to the skin and did not involve subcutaneous tissues. nodules consisted of dilated feather follicles packed with a caseous tan to pale yellow material. histologically, affected feather follicles were markedly dilated and filled with laminated keratin debris. the lesions were determined to be multiple fea ... | 1990 | 2304193 |
| hematozoa of wild turkeys from the midwestern united states: translocation of wild turkeys and its potential role in the introduction of plasmodium kempi. | twenty-three of 310 blood samples taken from live-trapped eastern wild turkeys (meleagris gallopavo silvestris) from missouri (usa), and hunter-killed birds from wisconsin, north dakota and minnesota (usa), and inoculated into domestic broad-breasted-white turkey poults were positive for two species of plasmodium. twenty-one of the positive samples were infected with p. (novyella) kempi, and two samples from wisconsin were infected with p. (giovannolaia) lophurae. twenty percent of 310 blood sme ... | 1990 | 2338722 |
| atherosclerosis in coronary, aortic, and sciatic arteries from wild male turkeys (meleagris gallopavo silvestris). | heart, aorta, and sciatic arteries were collected from 157 wild male turkeys (meleagris gallopavo silvestris) by hunters in 9 states during the spring 1983 and 1984 hunting seasons. in descending order of extent and severity, intimal vascular changes were observed in the left sciatic artery, aorta at the celiac region, cranial abdominal portion of the aorta, sciatic bifurcation, caudal abdominal portion of the aorta, coronary arteries, and thoracic portion of the aorta. only the aorta from the c ... | 1988 | 3223669 |
| renicola hayesannieae, a new kidney fluke (digenea: renicolidae) from the wild turkey, meleagris gallopavo silvestris vieillot, from mississippi. | | 1972 | 5012530 |
| blood and gastrointestinal parasites of eastern wild turkeys from kentucky and tennessee. | fifty-nine gastrointestinal tracts and 52 blood samples were collected from eastern wild turkeys (meleagris gallopavo silvestris vieillot) during the spring turkey hunts of 1979-1980 from two areas in western kentucky and tennessee. eight species of parasites were recovered, and included (combined prevalence): haemoproteus meleagridis levine, 1961 (25%), hymenolepis carioca (magalhaes, 1898) (44%), metroliasthes lucida ransom, 1900 (25%), raillietina georgiensis (reid and nugara, 1961) (15%), r. ... | 1984 | 6492320 |
| vertebrate host specificity and experimental vectors of plasmodium (novyella) kempi sp. n. from the eastern wild turkey in iowa. | vertebrate host specificity, experimental laboratory vectors, and a description of plasmodium (novyella) kempi sp. n. from eastern wild turkeys (meleagris gallopavo silvestris vieillot) in iowa are presented. plasmodium kempi is infective for domestic turkeys, bobwhites (colinus virginianus), chukars (alectoris graeca), guinea fowl (numida meleagris), peacocks (pavo cristatus), and canaries (serinus canaria), produces a transient infection in mallards (anas platyrhynchos) and domestic geese (ans ... | 1983 | 6644918 |
| histomoniasis in wild turkeys in mississippi. | blackhead (histomoniasis, enterohepatitis) was diagnosed as the cause of death for three wild turkeys (meleagris gallopavo silvestris) found in widely separated areas in mississippi. the turkeys came from areas with high turkey population densities and supplemental feeding programs. finding three sick and/or dead wild turkeys in a year's period suggests that the disease is more prevalent than generally believed. recommendations for management programs are presented. | 1980 | 7191012 |
| risk factors associated with capture-related death in eastern wild turkey hens. | capture-related mortality has been a notable risk in the handling of eastern wild turkey (meleagris gallopavo silvestris). our objective was to evaluate how environmental factors influence risk and identify physiological correlates that could be used to identify susceptible birds. during winter (january-march) 1995-97, 130 eastern wild turkey hens were captured in southeastern oklahoma and radiocollared. of those, 20 hens died < or =14 days of capture. serum creatine kinase activity (ck; p < 0.0 ... | 2000 | 10813613 |
| organophosphate toxicity in wild turkeys. | an accidental poisoning of wild turkeys (meleagris gallopavo silvestris) by o,o-diethyl o-[p-(methylsulfinyl) phenyl] phosphorothioate is reported. diagnosis was achieved by history, clinical observations, postmortem lesions, diagnostic therapy and pesticide analysis. | 1976 | 16502698 |
| detection of borrelia burgdorferi and borrelia lonestari in birds in tennessee. | lyme disease in the united states is caused by the bacterial spirochete borrelia burgdorferi s.s. (johnson, schmid, hyde, steigerwalt, and brenner), which is transmitted by tick vectors ixodes scapularis (say) and i. pacificus (cooley and kohls). borrelia lonestari, transmitted by the tick amblyomma americanum l., may be associated with a related syndrome, southern tick-associated rash illness (stari). borrelia lonestari sequences, reported primarily in the southeastern states, have also been de ... | 2009 | 19198527 |
| occurrence and seasonal transmission of hematozoa in wild turkeys. | the occurrence and seasonal patterns of transmission of the blood protozoa of wild turkeys (meleagris gallopavo silvestris) were studied at tallahala wildlife management area (twma) (jasper county, mississippi, usa). blood smears obtained from wild turkeys in winter, spring and summer, and from sentinel domestic turkeys throughout the year were examined for haemoproteus meleagridis and leucocytozoon smithi. whole blood from wild turkeys captured in summer was subinoculated into malaria-free dome ... | 1990 | 2250319 |
| oxyspirura turcottei n.sp. (nematoda: thelaziidae) from the eastern wild turkey (meleagris gallopavo silvestris). | | 1978 | 667760 |
| genetic variation at the mhc in a population of introduced wild turkeys. | genetic variation in the major histocompatibility complex (mhc) is known to affect disease resistance in many species. investigations of mhc diversity in populations of wild species have focused on the antigen presenting class iiβ molecules due to the known polymorphic nature of these genes and the role these molecules play in pathogen recognition. studies of mhc haplotype variation in the turkey ( meleagris gallopavo ) are limited. this study was designed to examine mhc diversity in a group of ... | 2013 | 23777350 |
| mortality and disease in wild turkeys ( meleagris gallopavo silvestris) in ontario, canada, from 1992 to 2014: a retrospective review. | wild turkeys ( meleagris gallopavo silvestris) were extirpated from ontario, canada, in the early 1900s due to unregulated over-hunting and habitat loss. despite a successful reintroduction program and strong population numbers, information regarding the health of wild turkeys in ontario is scarce. a 22-yr (1992-2014) retrospective study was performed to evaluate diagnostic data, including the cause(s) and contributors to death, in wild turkeys submitted to the ontario-nunavut node of the canadi ... | 2016 | 27610724 |
| heterologous expression and functional characterization of avian mu-class glutathione s-transferases. | hepatic glutathione s-transferases (gsts: ec2.5.1.1.8) catalyze the detoxification of reactive electrophilic compounds, many of which are toxic and carcinogenic intermediates, via conjugation with the endogenous tripeptide glutathione (gsh). glutathione s-transferase (gst)-mediated detoxification is a critical determinant of species susceptibility to the toxic and carcinogenic mycotoxin aflatoxin b1 (afb1), which in resistant animals efficiently detoxifies the toxic intermediate produced by hepa ... | 2013 | 23712008 |
| hemosporid (apicomplexa, hematozoea, hemosporida) community structure off pattern in wintering wild turkeys. | the hemosporid community of 76 wild turkeys (meleagris gallopavo silvestris) from south carolina (usa) was examined using thin blood smears collected during january and february 1994. high prevalences and low abundances of hemosporids characterized this community. leucocytozoon smithi and haemoproteus meleagridis occurred in 100% and 54% of the turkeys, respectively; a plasmodium sp. was found in one bird. prevalence of h. meleagridis was significantly higher in juvenile turkeys than adults, but ... | 1995 | 8592366 |
| [mathematical treatment of a growth series for body mass in turkeys (male, female)]. | body weight values for 60 gobblers and 60 hens of 3 series of the turkey (meleagris gallopavo silvestris) after data from johnson (1953), mosby and handley (1943) are submitted to nonlinear regressions for selected functions of organismic growth. the results are compiled in 3 tables confronting natural with approximated and smoothed values. the tables imply the parameters of the growth functions and characteristical data as well as the amounts of deviations. graphs show the body weight developme ... | 1985 | 4083515 |