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When chickens are healthy they consume less feed and produce more quality eggs. They are less trouble to look after and less money is spent on medical costs. Poultry disease can spread rapidly among chickens because they are usually kept together in the chicken house. The chickens share the same feeders and drinkers, which can spread disease and infections rapidly from sick to healthy chickens. In intensive egg production systems, much focus is placed on the egg laying performance of the flock. Poultry diseases can negatively affect the health and performance of your flock. Important and common poultry diseases include necrotic enteritis, chronic respiratory diseases, gangrenous dermatitis, fowl cholera, and avian influenza.
Dear friends, Viewing your reports regarding the occurrence of IBD, Mycoplasma, Marek's disease, IBH, ND and other important factors for poultry industry I would like to recommend the new and simple loop-mediated isothermal amplification method for the rapid and simple detection of many poultry pathogens. I successfully applied this tool for diagnosis of Marek's disease and differentiation between different strains used in prophylaxis of...
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Phytogenics are here to stay: Natural, Sustainable and Effective
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I have an open house,floor shed which remains closed for 2 years. Before it there was a tick and lice problem in a shed. What can i do?What measures should be adopted especially for tick problem? Thanks ...
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The ascites syndrome in broiler flocks has been increasing at an alarming rate, and this condition has become one of the leading causes of mortality and whole carcass condemnations throughout the world. Ascites represents a spectrum of physiological and metabolic changes...
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Changing Feed Industry Imperatives Call For A Closer Look At On-Site Aflatoxin Test Methods
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Introduction: As everybody aware that in the livestock industry diagnosis of any disease or disorder is a challenge for technician/veterinarian or expert in this field. As like the human beings, livestock are unable to express their problems so depending upon the clinical signs shown by them and history told by the owner, we have to diagnose the preliminary causes. But for final...
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Dr. Trudy Wassenaar , founder and principal research consultant of Molecular Microbiology and Genomics Consultants (MMGC), talks about her new book, " Bacteria: the Benign, the Bad and the Beautiful ", a book published by John Wiley & Sons Inc. which is now on sale. ...
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Dr. Guillermo Zavala, Associate Professor at the University of Georgia, speaks about methods of controlling Infectious laryngotracheitis during the XXII Latin American Poultry Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina. ...
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Dr. Trudy Wassenaar, Director of Molecular Microbiology and Genomics Consultancy (MMGC), speaks about Campylobacter control at the XVII World Veterinary Poultry Association Congress in Cancun, Mexico. ...
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Bacillus amyloliquefaciens CECT 5940 (Ecobiol®) expresses quorum quenching activity
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Cellulitis is an acute and diffuse suppurative inflamation, affecting all subcutaneous tissues and in certain instances the muscular tissue as well. It is frequently associated to abscess formation. In birds, cellulitis causes discoloration and thickening of the skin, hence, it is also known as an inflamatory process, or necrotic dermatitis (Norton, 1997). In recent years, the...
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Gregorz Wozniakowski, from the National Veterinary Research Institute, Pulawy, Poland speaks about Marek´s disease during the XVII World Veterinary Poultry Association Congress in Cancún, Mexico....
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Dr. Raúl Cerdá, Global Technical Director of Eco Animal Health, speaks about Avian Mycoplasmosis during the XXII Latin American Poultry Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina. ...
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Henrik Christensen, Professor at the University of Copenhagen, speaks about a case of streptococcal infection in Denmark in free range layers. ...
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Introduction Coccidiosis is a realistic problem and one of the most important diseases of poultry worldwide. It is caused by a protozoan parasite known as Eimeria that invade the cells of the poultry intestine. Species of coccidia which commonly affect poultry are Eimeria tenella, E. acervulina, E. necatrix, E. maxima and...
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Dr. Erica Spackman, Research Microbiologist at Southeast Poultry Research Lab, US Department of Agriculture (USDA), speaks about the lectures she gave at the XVII WVPA Congress in Cancun, Mexico and about the Young Scientist award she received by the Houghton Trust about some trends and novel innovative technologies in viral diagnostics that could help to control poultry diseases in the future....
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Vaccines are used to prevent or reduce problems that can occur when a poultry flock is exposed to field disease organisms. Vaccinations should be thought of as insurance. Like insurance, there is a price to be paid for protection against a potential threat. Costs include price of the vaccine, time spent designing the vaccination schedule and administering the vaccines, and losses due to vaccine reactions from the live-type vaccines...
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Mathieu Cortyl Manager for Norel, Spain, was present at Poultry Focus Asia 2010 and talked to Engormix.com about his presentation of salmonella control in broilers....
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Srinivasa Farms and Hy-Line: Pioneering Growth in India’s Poultry Market
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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates, each year, about 9.4 million people get sick from contaminated food. A new test may detect Salmonella infection in an early stage, allowing prompt action.
The USDA reports the leading cause of bacterial-related food illness in the U.S. is salmonella. About one million Americans get sick from salmonella annually, more than 19,000 are hospitalized and more than 370...
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AMES, Iowa - Iowa State University animal scientists are collaborating on a study of poultry genetics and management to help chickens deal with increased heat.
A $4.7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) is funding the five-year project. Carl Schmidt, associate professor at the University of Delaware, leads the study with scientists from Iowa State, North...
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When a bird is vaccinated, or exposed to a viral or bacterial infection, a complex biological mechanism is set in motion which normally results in the elevation of the bird's specific defenses against the disease in question. Sometimes this process also raises non-specifically its defenses against other infections. The immune response is generated by a complex system of specialized cells, the lymphocytes. All vertebrates have such a system but those of birds and...
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Gastrointestinal diseases pose a serious threat to industrial poultry breeding. Infections are caused by proliferation of naturally occurring intestinal microorganisms and their subsequent translocation to other organs and tissues of the birds. The consequences are a deterioration of feed conversion ratio, an increase in mortality and finally a reduction in productivity. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) this leads to a...
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