Poult Enteritis Mortality Syndrome

An acute, transmissible, infectious disease associated with high MORTALITY and MORBIDITY in young turkeys (poults). It is characterized by DIARRHEA; ANOREXIA; growth depression, and immune dysfunction. The cause is unknown but astroviruses (AVASTROVIRUS) and coronaviruses (CORONAVIRUS, TURKEY) have been isolated from diseased poults and are thought to cause the enteritis and increased susceptibility to bacterial infections.

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Networked: 16 relevant articles (0 outcomes, 2 trials/studies)

Disease Context: Research Results

Related Diseases

1.	Enteritis
2.	Communicable Diseases (Infectious Diseases)
3.	Body Weight (Weight, Body)

Experts

1.	Barnes, H J: 3 articles (04/2002 - 04/2000)
2.	Guy, J S: 3 articles (04/2002 - 05/2000)
3.	Strother, K O: 2 articles (02/2011 - 08/2008)
4.	Zsak, L: 2 articles (02/2011 - 08/2008)
5.	Vaillancourt, J P: 2 articles (04/2002 - 10/2001)
6.	Koci, M D: 2 articles (01/2001 - 04/2000)
7.	Schultz-Cherry, S: 2 articles (01/2001 - 04/2000)
8.	Pantin-Jackwood, M J: 1 article (02/2011)
9.	Day, J M: 1 article (02/2011)
10.	Spackman, E: 1 article (02/2011)

Drugs and Biologics

Drugs and Important Biological Agents (IBA) related to Poult Enteritis Mortality Syndrome:

1.	Blood Glucose (Blood Sugar)IBA 04/01/1995 - "The purposes of this study were to 1) measure blood glucose values in a flock of broiler chicks tentatively diagnosed as having spiking mortality syndrome (SMS), and 2) compare the blood glucose values using two methods: the Chemstrip bG visual method and the Chemstrip bG Accu-Chek III monitor method. " 04/01/1995 - "Pancreata from 19 hypoglycemic field broilers with spiking mortality syndrome and 19 clinically normal field broilers with normal blood glucose levels were collected and quick-frozen in liquid nitrogen immediately after the chicks were bled and killed. "
2.	2-(4-fluorophenyl)-N-methylsuccinimideIBA 09/01/1995 - "The purpose of the present study was to use clinical epidemiologic tools to define the relationship between production performance data, virus particles, and intestinal fringed membranous particles (FMPs) in healthy turkey poults and in poults that were experiencing an outbreak of poult enteritis complex (PEC) and spiking mortality syndrome (SMS). "
3.	3-(2-phenylethyl)-4-methylsydnoneIBA 08/01/2008 - "Poult enteritis mortality syndrome (PEMS) of turkeys and runting-stunting syndrome (RSS) of chickens are significant viral enteric diseases of poultry. " 10/01/2002 - "Poult enteritis mortality syndrome (PEMS) has been an economically devastating disease in North Carolina since the early 1990s. " 04/01/2002 - "Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) previously were identified in poult enteritis-mortality syndrome (PEMS)-affected turkeys and associated as a cause of this disease. " 10/01/2001 - "Poult enteritis mortality syndrome (PEMS) is an economically devastating disease. " 01/01/2001 - "Outbreaks of poult enteritis mortality syndrome (PEMS) continue to cause financial losses to the turkey industry. "
4.	Uric Acid (Urate)IBA 01/01/1995 - "Seven groups of day-old male primary broiler breeder chicks were orally inoculated with tissue and/or fecal-urate homogenates taken from field broilers with spiking mortality syndrome and from field broilers with enteritis and/or runting-stunting syndrome. "
5.	Growth Hormone (Somatotropin)IBA 04/01/1997 - "Twelve days postinoculation, the mean plasma insulinlike growth factor-1 (IGF-1) level and mean body weights were significantly depressed, and the mean plasma growth hormone level was significantly elevated, in the poults receiving the turkey-derived homogenate (P < or = 0.0003), as was previously reported in chickens with spiking mortality syndrome. "
6.	NitrogenIBA 04/01/1995 - "Pancreata from 19 hypoglycemic field broilers with spiking mortality syndrome and 19 clinically normal field broilers with normal blood glucose levels were collected and quick-frozen in liquid nitrogen immediately after the chicks were bled and killed. "
7.	Glucose (Dextrose)FDA LinkGeneric 04/01/1997 - "However, plasma glucose levels in the affected poults were within the normal range, unlike chickens with spiking mortality syndrome. "
8.	Glucagon (Glukagon)FDA Link 04/01/1995 - "Markedly reduced pancreatic glucagon levels in broiler chickens with spiking mortality syndrome."
9.	EnzymesIBA 12/01/1995 - "A fowl adenovirus isolated from a 'spiking mortality syndrome' field outbreak in broilers on the Delmarva Peninsula, USA, was identified by cross-neutralization tests and by restriction enzyme analysis using eight restriction enzymes as a strain of the fowl adenovirus serotype FAV12. "
10.	Diatrizoate Meglumine (Gastrograffin)FDA LinkGeneric 01/01/1996 - "Inocula included 1) virus-like particles from intestines of chicks with spiking mortality syndrome that had been banded in a discontinuous Renograffin gradient, 2) homogenized darkling beetles collected from litter of farms where spiking mortality syndrome had occurred repeatedly, and 3) homogenized embryos which had been inoculated with the Renograffin-banded material. "