Characteristics of a Psittacosis Viral Agent Isolated from a Turkey.

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Abstract
Several outbreaks (63 cases with 4 deaths) of ornithosis in poultry-dressing plants pointed to turkeys as a possible source of infection. Subsequently a virus was isolated from turkeys which forms Castaneda-positive elementary bodies, smaller than those formed by other viruses of the psittacosis group, with the usual developmental stages in the cytoplasm, readily rendered visible by Macchiavello stain. The infection spectrum of the agent is broad-experimentally infecting mice, guinea pigs, parakeets, lovebirds and chick embryos[long dash]and the pathogenicity is high. The toxin shares all characteristics of toxins of other members of the psittacosis group. The antigenically specific turkey strain is related to the Louisiana (Borg) and egret strains.

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