Pullorum disease is caused by vertically transmitted Salmonella enterica serotype Gallinarum biovar Pullorum and is characterized by very high mortality rates in young chickens and turkeys. Affected birds huddle near the heat source; are anorectic, weak, and lethargic; and have white fecal material pasted to the vent area.

Bacillary white diarrhea, also referred to as pullorum disease, is an acute highly fatal disease of young chicks due to Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica Gallinarum-Pullorum. Symptoms of the disease can appear at any time after hatching, until the birds are 3 weeks old.

Pullorum disease, also called Salmonella pullorum and bacillary white diarrhea (BWD), is caused by the bacterium Salmonella pullorum. Although chickens are natural hosts of Salmonella pullorum, other birds can also become infected.

Salmonella spp. comprises a group of Gram-negative, facultative anaerobic bacteria belonging to the family Enterobacteriaceae. Although members of this genus are mobile due to the presence of peritrichous flagella, there are nonmobile variants such …

Fowl typhoid and pullorum disease are caused by two different biovars of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Gallinarum, a Gram negative bacterial rod in Salmonella serogroup D (non-flagellated organisms with O antigens 1, 9 and 12) in the family Enterobacteriaceae.

Salmonella infections are classified as caused either by nonmotile serotypes (S enterica serotype Gallinarum biovar Pullorum for pullorum disease and S enterica serotype Gallinarum biovar Gallinarum for fowl typhoid) or by the many motile paratyphoid Salmonella serotypes.

Pullorum disease, previously known as Bacillary White Diarrhoea, in poultry is caused by Salmonella Pullorum. It is an acute systemic disease of young chickens and poults. Pullorum disease is spread from infected parent birds via the egg to the chick. Infected chicks spread the disease laterally in the hatchery.

Pullorum-Typhoid (P-T) is a disease caused by a Salmonella species that infects chickens, turkeys, and other types of poultry. This disease is egg-transmitted and can produce high death loss in the young birds. Birds that survive a P-T infection …

Description and importance of the disease: Pullorum disease of chickens is a bacterial infection caused by Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica serovar Gallinarum biovar Pullorum (Salmonella Pullorum)1.

Pullorum disease is an acute systemic disease in chickens and turkey poults. The infection is trans-mitted with eggs and is commonly characterized by a white diarrhoea and high death rate, whereas adult birds are asymptomatic earners.