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Birds

Diseases of Birds

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Bluecomb coronavirus; i.e. transmissible enteritis, or coronaviral enteritis
Bluecomb treated supportively with supplemental heat, nursing care, husbandry and antibiotics to prevent secondary bacterial infections; no vaccine
Laryngotracheitis herpesvirus
Chicken Coccidiosis Eimeria
Avian (fowl) pox Dry form: whitish "wart; wet form: mainly involves the oral cavity and upper respiratory tract. Lesions are diphtheritic and can ulcerate or erode mucous membranes
Avian (fowl) pox None; Control mosquito populations and vaccinate chicks or replacement chickens with a single immunization against the suspected disease (permanent immunity)
Infectious coryza Antibiotics (it is a bacteria)
Mereck's Disease Herpesvirus
Fowl Cholera P. multocida
Infectious coryza Haemophilus paragallinarum
Infectious coryza nasal discharge, sneezing, and swelling of the face underneath the eyes. Older birds
Infectious coryza innoculation of healthy bird with isolated organism
Turkey coryza Bordatella avium
Turkey coryza nasal discharge, foamy eyes, and cough ; high morbidity and low mortality
Turkey coryza isolation on MacConkey agar or serology
Newcastle disease RNA virus (paramyxovirus
Newcastle disease diarrhea, swelling of the head and neck, gasping, coughing, sneezing, drooping wings and dragging legs, circling, torticollis, paralysis, and clonic spasms
Newcastle disease hemagglutinating, CS: rapidly spreading respiratory and neurologic disease, in addition to isolation of the organism.
Newcastle disease transitory conjunctivitis in humans.
Reticuloendotheliosis retrovirus
Reticuloendotheliosis runting (weight loss, paleness, abnormal feathering, and occasional paralysis), acute neoplasias, as well as chronic B and T cell lymphomas; thymic and bursal atrophy, enlarged nerves, and anemia
Mycoplasma gallisepticum more severely affects turkeys than chickens; severe sinusitis and air sacculitis
Mycoplasma gallisepticum ELISA, rapid plate agglutination, or PCR
Fowl plague an avian influenza virus
Fowl plague slightly decreased egg production; greenish diarrhea, cyanosis, and edema of the head, comb, and waddle; discoloration of the shanks and feet; blood tinged oral and nasal discharge
Psittacine beak and feather disease circovirus
Psittacine beak and feather disease commonly <3yrs; feather loss, abnormal pin and mature feathers, lack of powder down, and various beak abnormalities
Psittacine beak and feather disease appearance of birds and by blood tests using a viral DNA probe.
Infectious bursal disease birna virus
Infectious bursal disease unsteady gait, huddling under equipment, diarrhea, and vent pecking; swollen kidneys, hemorrhage in the thigh muscles and an edematous cloacal bursa
Infectious bursal disease highly contagious and difficult to eliminate from the environment; subclinical
Infectious bursal disease no effective treatment although vitamin
Hemorrhagic enteritis adenovirus
Hemorrhagic enteritis injection of antiserum from recovered birds; administration of vaccines in the water to 4-5 week old animals.
Infectious bronchitis coronavirus
Infectious bronchitis coughing, sneezing, facial swelling; mucoid exudate in the bronchi and thickened air sacs
Infectious bronchitis Viral isolation after serial passage in chick embryos
Chlamydia (Ornithosis) intracytoplasmic inclusions,nasal and ocular discharge, weight loss, inappetence, and death. Pneumonia, multifocal necrosis in the liver and spleen, and severe pericarditis.
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