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Journal of Biological Sciences

Year: 2003 | Volume: 3 | Issue: 3 | Page No.: 376-379
DOI: 10.3923/jbs.2003.376.379
Somatic Serotyping and Pathogenicity Testing of P. multocida Strains Isolated from Layer Chickens
Muhammad Javed Arshad, Muhammad Siddique and Iftikhar Hussain

Abstract: During the year 2000-2001, P. multocida isolated from natural outbreaks of fowl cholera were subjected to somatic serotyping for the first time in Pakistan. Serotyping was carried out by the gel-diffusion precipitin test. P. multocida serotype 1 predominated with the percentage of 47.62, followed by serotype 3(28.57%), 4(14.29%) and 12(09.52%). All the serotypes found highly virulent with 100% mortality after challenge by serotype 1 and 3, 80% by serotype 4 and 60% by serotype 12.

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Muhammad Javed Arshad, Muhammad Siddique and Iftikhar Hussain, 2003. Somatic Serotyping and Pathogenicity Testing of P. multocida Strains Isolated from Layer Chickens. Journal of Biological Sciences, 3: 376-379.

Keywords: Avian pasteurellosis, fowt cholera, P.multocida, somating serotyping, get-diffusion preciptitin test and pathogenicity testing

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