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Poultry Disease
Poultry Disease
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1 SalmonellosisP/5
2 CAMPYLOBACTERIOSISP/31
3 Fowl choleraP/45
4 AVIAN CLOSTRIDIOSISP/67
5 CoccidiosisP/67
6 MYCOPLASMA
GALLISEPTICUM INFECTIONS P/121
7 YCOPLASMA
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SYNOVIAE INFECTIONSP/141
8 INFECTIOUS CORYZAP/157
9 FOWL POXP/171
1 Salmonellosis
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1 S al m onellos is
History and synonyms
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disease are white diarrhoea, proposed (Schaffer et al., 1931).
s e p t i c a e m i c a n d d e g e n e ra t i v e and the now obsolete “bacillary According to early reports, this
white diarrhoea” and “fatal disease was considered of major
n e c ro b i o t i c lesions of the
septicaemia of young Chickens”. significance for the poultry industry
alimentary t ra c t and the In 1929, the term Pullorum disease and outbreaks with mortality rates
was approved and became of over 85% were reported (Bullis,
p a re n c h y m a l o rg a n s . internationally accepted. In 1909 1977). Subsequently, programmes
Dr. Rettger and Stoneburn reported for eradication and maintenance
the transovarial transmission of the of Pullorum disease-free flocks were
infection that was, in fact, the first implemented.
report of such a route of infection Fowl typhoid in poultry is very
transmission. The complete cycle closely related to Pullorum disease.
of infection, along with evidence It is caused by S. Gallinarum and
that infected chickens could be is established in 1888 (Klein, 1889).
a permanent reservoir of infection During the next years, reports
and may transmit it via the eggs, about the isolation of the bacterial
was presented by Dr. Rettger and agent came from different parts
his collaborators in 1914. The of the world. By that time, it was
agglutination test developed by also called Bacillus sanguinarum
Dr Jones introduced the diagnostic (Moore, 1895). The name fowl
procedure for detection of the typhoid was accepted in 1902
causative agent (Jones, 1913). (Curtice, C. 1902).