Infectious serositis in duclings due to pasteurella anatipestifer infection

• Main Author: Perpustakaan UGM, i-lib
• Format: Article NonPeerReviewed
• Published: [Yogyakarta] : Universitas Gadjah Mada 1984
• Subjects: Jurnal i-lib UGM
• Online Access: https://repository.ugm.ac.id/20955/; http://i-lib.ugm.ac.id/jurnal/download.php?dataId=3813
• Institution: Universitas Gadjah Mada

ABSTRAK In the early 1982, more than one thousand ducklings located in three different location of duck farms in South Sulawesi Province were reported died mostly within 24. hours after the clinical signs were observed. The most prominent lesions were acute fibrinous hepatitis, fribinous pericarditis, spleenitis and air saculitis. Pasteurella anatipestifer was purely isolated from the sinus, lung, heart blood, brain, spleen dan air sac. The clinical signs, pathogenesis and pathological lesions similar to one which has been reported by previous investigators. 1932), but later workers have calked it as MoraxeHa anatipestifer (Bruner and Fabricant, 1954), however and it was listed under P. anatipestifer in the Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology (Smith, 1974). The disease has been reported in some different countries in the world such as England, United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Sovyet Union and Australia (Heddleston and Rhoades, 1972., Rosenfeld, 1973). The purpose of the present paper is to report a natural case of infectious serositis due to P. anatipestifer in Indonesia. Keywords: infeksi sirositis, duckling due .