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What group is Salmonella pullorum?
Salmonella is a motile, asporogenous, rod-shaped bacterium in the family Enterobacteriaceae and the tribe Salmonellae. Nonmotile variants include Salmonella Gallinarum and Salmonella Pullorum. The bacteria can colonize a wide range of hosts and all the major livestock species poultry, cattle, and pigs.
What causes pullorum?
Pullorum disease is caused by Salmonella enterica Pullorum and is characterized by very high mortality in young chickens and turkeys. Affected birds huddle near the heat source, are anorectic, weak, depressed, and have white fecal material pasted to the vent area.
How is typhoid pullorum tested?
The most common test used to detect pullorum-typhoid disease is the rapid whole-blood plate test. Three other tests— the rapid serum plate test, the tube agglutination test, and the microagglutination test—can also be used but must be performed in an authorized laboratory.
How is Salmonella pullorum treated?
In vitro studies showed that polzomycin and neotarchocin appeared to be the most effective drugs in the treatment of poultry diseases caused by S. pullorum or S. gallinarum.
Where is Salmonella pullorum found?
Infections in mammals are unusual, but a few Salmonella Pullorum infections have been reported in naturally or experimentally infected pigs, cattle, cats, dogs, foxes, mink, rabbits, guinea pigs, laboratory and wild rats, chinchillas and chimpanzees. Rats were infected experimentally with Salmonella Gallinarum.
Is Salmonella pullorum a bacteria?
Salmonella Pullorum and S. Gallinarum belong to important bacterial pathogens and have resulted in enormous economic losses in poultry, particularly in the developing countries.
What are symptoms of Pullorum disease?
What are the clinical signs of pullorum disease and fowl typhoid?
- anorexia;
- depression;
- diarrhea;
- dying or death (highest mortality rate in the first 2 weeks of life and in incubators); and.
- laboured breathing.
What is the prevention of pullorum-typhoid?
The disease is not treatable. The best method of prevention is routine Pullorum-Typhoid testing of breeder flocks, purchasing birds from National Poultry Improvement Plan participants, and effective biosecurity.
How do you prevent pullorum?
To prevent pullorum disease, obtain your birds or hatching eggs from a hatchery participating in the National Poultry Improvement Plan (NPIP). Do not mix NPIP-certified flocks with noncertified birds. Maintain a rigorous biosecurity program. NOTE Pullorum is a reportable disease.
What are symptoms of pullorum disease?
How do you prevent pullorum-typhoid?
How does Salmonella pullorum spread?
How are pullorum disease and fowl typhoid transmitted? The most common ways for these diseases to spread is through contact with infected birds, and the transmission from hens to chicks through the egg. Game birds and backyard flocks may act as reservoirs for the infection.
Is Pullorum disease infectious?
Pullorum disease is an infectious poultry disease caused by the bacterium Salmonella pullorum. The disease affects mainly young chicks and poults, but can also affect older chickens, game birds, guinea fowl, ostriches, parrots, peafowl, ring doves, sparrows and turkeys.
How is typhoid pullorum prevented?
Is pullorum airborne?
Pullorum occurs both horizontally and vertically but the airborne transmission of S. Pullorum has been neglected historically.