STUDIES ON E.Coli IN POULTRY I MOST PREVALENT SEROTYPES

Document Type : Research article

Authors

Abstract

523 Slaughtered and freshly dead baby chicks collected from different
poultry farms in Assiut Governetate were subjected to post-martem
and bacteriological examinations.
Morphologically and biochemically 308 isolates were suspected to
be E.coli, out of it 118 were serologically identified as U78: K80
(B-) 36 isolates, 0125: K_/D(B15) 29, O86: K61 (B7) 21, 01M:K
(B-) ll, om: l-(BB) 6 isolates.