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• E. maxima
• E. mitis
• E. praecox
• E. hagani
• E. mivati
• Occysts are resistant to some common
disinfetants but killed by freezing or high
temperature.
E. tenella
• Infected droppings.
• Distended crop
• Chocolate colored faeces in the beginning
that changes into bloody type later on.
• Comb & wattle become pale.
• Severe dirrhoea
• Recovered birds remain unproductive.
Clinical findings contd…
IN ADULTS:
• Chronic intestinal form is common
• Gradual loss of appettite.
• Emaciation and dehydration
• Ruffled feathers
• Wattle & comb become pale.
• Chocolate colored droppings.
• Weakness in limb-lameness.
DIAGNOSIS
BY SYMPTOMS:
• Eyes remain closed.
BY HEMATOLOGY:
• Decreased RBC & PCV
• PCR: becoming more broadly available
BY FECAL EXAMINATION:
• Sporulated oocyst containing 4 spocyst
each with 2 comma shaped sporozoites.
Faecal examination
BY PM LESIONS:
• Submucosal haemorrhage on intestinal
mucosa.
• Haemorrhagic lesion in wall of cecum
• Enlarged intestine or cecum.
• Haemorrhagic kidney,duodenum & gizzard
• Bloody fecal content in cecum
E. tenella
Recto-ileal homorrhage
Differential Diagnosis
Necrotic enteritis:
• It is an acute enterotoxemia.
• The clinical signs shows sudden increase in
mortality.
• primarily affects broiler chickens (2-5 wk old)
raised on litter but can also affect
commercial layer pullets raised in cages
• The causative agent is the gram-positive,
obligate, anaerobic bacteria Clostridium
perfringens
Differential diagnosis contd…
Ulcerative Enteritis:
• Ulcerative enteritis caused by C. colinum.
• Usually produces focal lesions from the
distal portion of the small intestine (ileum)
to the ceca.
• It is almost always accompanied by
hepatic necrosis
TREATMENT
• CHOICE OF DRUG: ESb3 @ 2 gm/lit. for 1st
2 days, then 2 days gap.
VACCINATION:
• Coccivac type B & D or
• Immucox,or
• Baycox 2.5% at 1 days old chick