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Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences

Year: 1999 | Volume: 2 | Issue: 3 | Page No.: 1078-1079
DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.1999.1078.1079
Field Observations on a Devastating Respiratory Syndrome in Broilers in Pakistan
Ahmed D Anjum and Farzana Rizvi

Abstract: A respiratory syndrome causing heavy mortality in broilers is widespread throughout the country. It involves all ages of broilers mostly; layers are also susceptible. Initially there is sinusitis, followed by pneumonia, mucoid to haemorrhagic tracheitis and air-sacculitis. Mortality varies from 5 percent to as high as 70 percent. Target organs included all respiratory tract showing congestion, haemorrhages and necrosis. Tracheal epithelium contained basophilic intranuclear inclusions. Lungs showed multiple colonies of coca-bacilli. The disease appears to be virus-bacteria interaction.

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Ahmed D Anjum and Farzana Rizvi, 1999. Field Observations on a Devastating Respiratory Syndrome in Broilers in Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences, 2: 1078-1079.

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