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Poultry disease

Diseases affecting domesticated birds harvested for food

Poultry disease

Diseases affecting domesticated birds harvested for food

Poultry diseases occur in poultry, which are domesticated birds kept for their meat, eggs or feathers. Poultry species include the chicken, turkey, duck, goose and ostrich.

Viral diseases

Side view of a yellow chick leaning forward, with its eye closed, beak wide open, and feathers in a disheveled state.
8 day old chick with difficulty breathing, due to an Avian influenza infection.
  • Avian infectious bronchitis, caused by a strain of Avian coronavirus previously known as infectious bronchitis virus
  • Avian infectious laryngotracheitis, caused by Gallid alphaherpesvirus 1
  • Avian influenza, caused by Avian influenza virus
  • Duck plague, caused by Anatid alphaherpesvirus 1
  • Chicken infectious anemia, caused by Chicken anaemia virus
  • Epidemic tremor, caused by Tremovirus
  • Fowlpox, caused by viruses in the genus Avipoxvirus
  • Infectious bursal disease (IBD), also known Gumboro disease, caused by Infectious bursal disease virus
  • Lymphoid leukosis caused by avian sarcoma leukosis virus
  • Marek's disease
  • Newcastle disease
  • Viral arthritis, caused by Avian reovirus

Parasitic diseases

Infestation of ''Echidnophaga gillinacea'' fleas on the comb and around the eye of a chicken
  • Scaly leg, caused by the mite Knemidocoptes mutans
  • Infestation by Dermanyssus gallinae, the red poultry mite
  • Infestation by Echidnophaga gallinacea, the sticktight flea

Bacterial diseases

  • Colibacillosis in poultry
  • Infectious coryza in chickens
  • Ornithobacterium rhinotracheale
  • Pullorum disease
  • Riemerella anatipestifer
  • Salmonellosis in poultry
  • Staphylococcal infection in poultry
  • Streptococcal infection in poultry
  • Omphalitis in chicks (mushy chick disease)
  • Mycoplasmosis
  • Fowl cholera
  • Campylobacteriosis
  • Pseudomonas
  • Ornithobacteriosis

Protozoal diseases

  • Histomoniasis (blackhead disease), caused by Histomonas meleagridis
  • Coccidiosis
  • Trichomonas gallinae

Fungal diseases

  • Ergotism, which occurs when poultry feed is contaminated with toxic alkaloids produced by fungi of the genus Claviceps
  • Aspergillosis, a non-contagious disease caused when birds inhale Aspergillus spores that cause breathing to be hard for the bird
  • Ringworm

References

References

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  3. (28 January 2019). "Commercial vaccines and vaccination strategies against infectious laryngotracheitis: what we have learned and knowledge gaps that remain". Avian Diseases.
  4. (March 2020). "Antiviral responses against chicken respiratory infections: Focus on avian influenza virus and infectious bronchitis virus". Cytokine.
  5. (2019). "Chicken anemia virus: A deadly pathogen of poultry". Acta Virologica.
  6. (2016). "Avian medicine". Elsevier.
  7. (March 2020). "Viral arthritis in poultry".
  8. (9 July 2020). "Parasitic mite fauna in Asian poultry farming systems". Frontiers in Veterinary Science.
  9. (December 2015). "Should the poultry red mite Dermanyssus gallinae be of wider concern for veterinary and medical science?". Parasites & Vectors.
  10. (13 November 2018). "ENY-244/MG236: Sticktight Flea, Echidnophaga gallinacea".
  11. (25 February 2016). "Impacts of cereal ergot in food animal production". Frontiers in Veterinary Science.
  12. (October 2010). "Aspergillus infections in birds: a review". Avian Pathology.
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