SOME STUDIES ON PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS IN GROWING CHICKENS IN ASSIUT FARMS

Document Type : Research article

Authors

1 Animal Health Research Institute Assiut Lab. Lab. Director Prof. Dr. S.M. Nashed

2 Dept. of Nutrition, Assiut University Hospitals

Abstract

Atotal of 200 freshly dead growing chickens collected from different governmental farms at Assiut Governorate. Only 16 positive cases of Pseudomonas (Ps) aeruginosa were isolated with an incidence of 8%. The experimental infection in 3-day old chicks by different routes of inoculation revealed that subcutaneous route was highly effective with mortality rate 95%, while oral route of infection was almost less (40% mortality). Reisolation of inoculated organism from dead chicks were conducted. In vitro antibiotics sensitivity tests showed that the examined isolates were
highly sensitive to gentamycin, neomycin, danofloxacin, colistin, amikin and streptomycin.

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