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 A&M System
http://aevm.tamu.edu
Objectives
Discuss the decrease in the prevalence of
pullorum and typhoid in poultry
Understand that health regulations prevent
the spread of disease
Primarily Chickens and Turkeys
Pullorum disease
Salmonella pullorum
Infectious to chickens and turkeys
Fowl Typhoid
Salmonella gallinarum
Infectious to poultry
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
National Poultry Improvement Plan
(NPIP)
Voluntary state-federal cooperative testing
and certification program
Effective 1935
USDA
Improve poultry, products, and hatcheries
New technology
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 PullorumTyphoid Program Office