Poultry disease
Poultry diseases are diseases that afflict poultry. Major types of poultry include the chicken, turkey, duck, goose and ostrich.
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A chicken showing symptoms of avian pox
The eradication of poultry disease is very important to the poultry industry.
Viral diseases
- Chicken anaemia virus
- Infectious bursal disease also known as IBD or Gumboro disease
- Lymphoid leukosis caused by avian sarcoma leukosis virus
- Marek's disease
- Newcastle disease
- Viral arthritis
- Avian influenza
- Fowl pox
- Epidemic tremor
- Laryngotracheitis
Parasitic diseases
- Scaly leg, caused by the mite Knemidocoptes mutans
- Infestations:
- Dermanyssus gallinae, the red poultry mite
- Echidnophaga gallinacea, the stickfast flea
- Worms in chickens
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
Fungal diseases
- Ergotism
- Aspergillosis
- Sour crop
- Ringworm
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