Pullorum- Typhoid Control Program

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Pullorum- Typhoid Control Program

• 4-H Veterinary Science
• Extension Veterinary Medicine 
• Texas AgriLife Extension Service
• College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical
  Science
• Texas AM System
• http//aevm.tamu.edu

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Objectives

• Discuss the decrease in the prevalence of
  pullorum and typhoid in poultry
• Understand that health regulations prevent the
  spread of disease

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Primarily Chickens and Turkeys

• Pullorum disease
• Salmonella pullorum
• Infectious to chickens and turkeys
• Fowl Typhoid
• Salmonella gallinarum
• Infectious to poultry

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Background information

• Bacterial diseases
• No vaccine
• High mortality
• Almost eradicated
• Transmission
• Spreads to day-old chicks by infected breeders
  through the hatching eggs
• Highly transmissible

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National Poultry Improvement Plan (NPIP)

• Voluntary state-federal cooperative testing and
  certification program
• Effective 1935
• USDA
• Improve poultry, products, and hatcheries
• New technology

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Sale and Movement of Poultry

• Interstate and International Movement
• Hatching eggs and poultry originate from flocks
  participating in the NPIP
• Public exhibition
• Found free of infection, or originate form
  certified flocks
• Sale or trade
• All breeders register with state Pullorum-Typhoid
  Program Office