Poultry Flashcards

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Fowl plague

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Avian influenza virus (notifiable): green diarrhea + cyanosis + edema + discoloration of shanks, feet + bloody oral/nasal discharge

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Avian encephalomyelitis

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Picornovirus causes neurological signs in 1-2 week old chick –> vaccinate breeder animals

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Necrotic enteritis

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Clostridium perfringens C (gram-positive rods): high mortality + treat with antibiotics

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Marek’s disease

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Herpesvirus: thickened nerves + ocular signs + raised skin + gray foci of neoplasia on visceral organs –> in-ovo vaccination

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Lymphoid leukosis

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Viral disease causes lymphoma

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Nutritional encephalomalacia

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Vitamin E deficiency causes neurological signs in chicks

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Reticuloendotheliosis

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Retrovirus causes runting, neoplasia and lymphoma

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Deep pectoral myopathy

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Green muscle disease affecting supracoracoideus

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Infectious Bronchitis Virus

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Coronavirus with high morbidity: respiratory disease and changes to egg shell quality –> viral isolation after passages in chick embryo

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Infectious bursal disease (gumboror disease)

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Birna virus affects bursa of fabricius causing diarrhea, ataxia, vent picking –> vaccinate

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Newcastle disease

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Paramyxovirus causing diarrhea, respiratory and neurological signs –> vaccinate

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Fowl cholera

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Pasteurella multocida: pyrexia, diarrhea, mucoid oral discharge, effusions –> vaccinate or treat with sulfonamides, tetracyclines, penicillin.

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Infectious laryngotracheitis

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Herpesvirus diagnosed by intranuclear inclusion bodies from trachea

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Fowl pox

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Poxvirus affecting 1-2 week old chicks: dry + wet form causing scabs and warts or fibrinous plaques in URT –> vaccinate chick embryos

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Avian chlamydiosis

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Necrosis of internal organs diagnosed by intracytoplasmic inclusion bodies. Treat with tetracycline.

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E. coli infection

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Triad of necropsy findings: fibrinous air sacculitis + pericarditis + perihepatitis

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Aspergillosis

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Granulomatous pneumonia –> treat with terbinafine

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Infectious coryza

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Avibacterium paragallinarum: oculonasal discharge, edema, and infraorbital swelling

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Malabsorption (runting) syndrome

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Multifactorial etiology: poor growth and feathers + pale feet and skin + orange intestinal contents –> cull affected birds

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Mycoplasma gallisepticum

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Chronic respiratory disease: classic triad necropsy of fibrinous pericarditis and perihepatitis + air sacculitis –> treat with tylosin or vaccinate

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Cnemidocoptes mite

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Scaly leg mite: treat with ivermectin/moxidectin

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Dermanyssus gallinae

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Poultry red mite: treat environment

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Laminosioptes cysticola

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Subcutaneous mite: nodular lesions

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Ornithonyssus bursae

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Tropical fowl mite: lesions of feathered regions around vent

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Syngamus trachea

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Gapeworm: consumption of worms, snails or slugs + lives in trachea and lungs

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Bluecomb (turkeys)

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Coronavirus causes transmissible enteritis

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Spontaneous cardiomyopathy (turkeys)

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Round heart disease causes sudden death in young turkeys

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Turkey coryza

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Bordatella avium with high morbidity causes URT signs

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Mycoplasma gallisepticum (turkeys)

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Infectious sinusitis

30
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Histomonas meleagridis (turkeys)

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Blackhead disease: Protozoa carried by heterakis gallinarum that is fatal to turkeys: necrosis of liver + cecum –> drooping wings, sulfur colored feces, unkempt feathers

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Avian (fowl) pox (turkeys)

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Dry form = raised wart lesions, wet form = diphtheritic lesions of oral cavity and URT –> vaccinate

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Anaerobic infections

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Clostridium or motile protozoa –> treat with metronidazole