Pulmonary Candidiasis in Fowl
| Autor: | S. K. Negi, V. D. Sharma, M. S. Sethi |
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| Rok vydání: | 1970 |
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Larynx
Nasal cavity Exudate Pathology medicine.medical_specialty animal structures animal diseases Fowl medicine Animals Respiratory system Candida albicans Poultry Diseases Candida Lung Diseases Fungal biology business.industry Candidiasis General Medicine respiratory system biology.organism_classification Corpus albicans medicine.anatomical_structure Immunology Animal Science and Zoology Rabbits medicine.symptom business Chickens Respiratory tract |
| Zdroj: | Poultry Science. 49:1169-1171 |
| ISSN: | 0032-5791 |
| DOI: | 10.3382/ps.0491169 |
| Popis: | CANDIDIASIS generally affects the digestive tract in poultry. However, isolation of Candida albicans, the causal organism, has also been reported from the respiratory-tract (RT) of fowls. Sansonetti (1954) reported the involvement of C. albicans in the inflammation of lungs and bronchi. Vallee et al. (1964) isolated the organism from the nasal exudate of a fowl suffering from coryza. There appears to be no report on the isolation of any member of the genus Candida from the RT of fowls in India. In the present study attempts were made to isolate fungi from the respiratory tract of two fowls, showing nodular lesions, with the following observations. OBSERVATIONS Two White Leghorn fowls, received for the post-mortem examination from the poultry farm, Nagla, showed congestion and granulomatous nodular lesions in their lungs and aerosaccitis. The granulomatous nodules present in lungs and swabs from nasal cavity, larynx, trachea, bronchi and air-sacs were collected under… |
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