Pullorum disease is an acute systemic disease in chickens and turkey poults. The infection is trans-mitted with eggs and is commonly characterized by a white diarrhoea and high death rate, whereas adult birds are asymptomatic earners. The morbidity and the mortality rates increase about the 7th - 10th day after hatching. The affected chickens appear somnolent, depressed and their growth is retarded. The feathers around the vent in many chickens is stained with diarrhoeic faeces or pasted with dry faeces.

The aetiological agent
Salmomella pullorum, a non-motile Gram-negative microorganism. S. pullorum is very resistant under moderate climatic conditions and could survive for months. It could be killed by fumigation with formaldehyde of breeder eggs in the hatchery. Typical for this form are the greyish-whitish nodes in one or some of the following places: heart , lungs, liver, gizzard walls and intestines, the peritoneum.

Clinical signs and symptoms
1. Depression
2. Somnolense (appear sleepy)
3. Lethagy
4. Whitish diarrhea given the name Baccilary white Diarrhea
5. Huddling near source of heat
6. Unabsorbed yolk leading to infected navel
7.

Prevention
Is mainly by prevention and tight Biosecurity

Treatment
The Use of Antibiotics
Drog of choice includes
1. Enrofloxacin
2. Ciprofloxacin
3. Sulpha drugs
4. Oxytetracylin

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