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Chick rearing: VII. The control of epidemic bacillary white diarrhoea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

T. Barton Mann
T. Barton Mann
Affiliation:
Biological Research Laboratory, Weatherstones, Neston, Wirral
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A feeding test performed on Hanns Hall Farm chicks demonstrates that a diet conducive to intestinal putrefaction fed to chicks after 14 days from birth initiates an epidemic of bacillary white diarrhoea (pullorum disease).

If is proposed that measures for the control of epidemic bacillary white diarrhoea of chicks (pullorum disease), which consist of the detection and removal of reacting hens from the flock by means of a diagnostic and sensitive antigen, cannot be effective unless accompanied by an alteration in nutrition for the purpose of reducing intestinal putrefaction.

Experiments at this laboratory show that the agglutination test for bacillary white diarrhoea cannot differentiate between fowls which produce diseased chicks and fowls which produce chicks resistant to disease.

Experiments at this laboratory show that B. pullorum as a potential pathogen does not remain viable to an extent that it is able to produce bacillary white diarrhoea in chicks from an incubator or brooder which has held diseased hatches or broods, respectively.

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Research Article
Information
The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 35 , Issue 4 , October 1945 , pp. 225 - 231
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1945

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