Other diseases

PASTEURELLOSIS IN MAMMALS

  • Carry out the vaccination in the endemic areas against hemorrhagic septicemia.
  • Oil adjuvant vaccine protects animals against the attack of the disease for a long time, than the case with alum precipitated vaccine.
    • Fowl cholera
      • In aquatic and semi-aquatic birds, this disease may occur.
      • Good management, sanitation and hygiene are the preventive steps to be taken with regard to this disease condition.
      • Efficient control of wild rodents should be carried out.
      • Maintenance of hygienic standards to prevent the contamination of food resources and in particular the water resources with urine.
      • Detection of the infected animals by serological and bacteriological tests and their separation from healthy animals should be carried out.
      • Immunization may be carried out in case of carnivores esp. in the endemic areas.
    • Black quarter
      • Hygienic maintenance is the specific preventive step against the occurrence of this disease.
      • Destruction of carcases by burning and cleaning and effective treatment of wounds should be carried out as preventive steps of minimizing the spread.
      • Culture of diarrhoeic animals will reveal the diseased ones and isolate the diseased animal as one of the preventive step to minimize the spread of the problem.
      • It is important to remove all the possible sources of infection, carrier animals, rodents, contaminated.
    • Coli bacillosis
      • This is common in case of young ones.
      • Provide hygienic management measures.
      • Avoid over crowding of animals of one species
    • Dermatophytoses (Ringworm)
      • Contaminated enclosures, equipment and bedding should be disinfected by spraying copper sulphate solution or 5 % lime sulphur solution. This helps to diminish the reservoir of infection.
      • Fallen skin crusts have to be disposed off to check the spread of infection from diseased to other. 
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