Pullorum & Fowl Typhoid

Question 1

Fowl typhoid is caused by?

Answer 1

Salmonella enterica serotype Gallinarum biovar Gallinarum

Question 2

Is a bram negative, non-motile, host adapted avian pathogen belonging to Salmonella serogroup D.

Answer 2

S. Gallinarum

Question 3

Fowl typhoid lesions in older birds may include the following:

Answer 3

Swollen, friable, and often bile-stained liver, with or without necrotic foci
Enlarged spleen and kidneys
Anemia
Enteritis

Question 4

Lesions in chicks and poults include:

Answer 4

Anorexia
Diarrhoea
Dehydration
Weakness and high mortality

Question 5

Fowl typhoid diagnosis should be confirmed by?

Answer 5

Isolation
Identification
Serotyping of S Gallinarum

Question 6

Is responsible for considerable economic losses in the poultry industry worldwide.

Answer 6

Pullorum disease

Question 7

Pullorum disease was known as

Answer 7

Bacillary white diarrhea

Question 8

Pullorum disease is caused by infection with

Answer 8

Salmonella enterica enterica serovar Gallinarum biovar Pullorum(S Pullorum)

Question 9

A gram negative nonsporogenic rods measuring 1.0 - 2.5 mcm by 0.3-1.5 mcm

Answer 9

S Pullorum

Question 10

Affected birds exhibit the following clinical signs:

Answer 10

Huddling near a heat source
Anorexia
Weakness
Whitish fecal pasting around the veint(diarrhea)

Question 11

Lesions of Pullorum Disease in poultry

Answer 11

Granulomatous splenitis, adult chicken
Granulomatous pericarditis, adult chicken
Ranulomatous oopharitis, adult chicken
Granulomatous hepatitis, liver, chicken

Question 12

Lesions in young birds:

Answer 12

Unabsorbed yolk sacs
Classic gray nodules in the liver, spleen, lungs, heart, gizzard, and intestine.
Firm, cheesy material in the ceca
Raised plaques in the mucosa of the lower intestine
Synovitis