BACTERIAL DISEASE

 Trachea tied with Thread on the ends, to be kept in a sterile container on ice or dry ice.
c respiratory disease
 Pieces of trachea, lungs and air sacs in formalin.

 Blood smears
 Blood in Pasteur pipette and spleen (in test tube) on ice.
 Long bone packed in charcoal powder with or without ice.

 Blood smears.
spirochaetosis  Pieces of liver and spleen in formalin.

 Liver, spleen, lungs in formalin.

 1 g of faeces in 10 ml of selenite broth.
 Whole carcass or intestines, spleen, gall bladder on ice.
 Serum of sick or recovered birds if any (about 0.25 ml or more).

 Same as above.
orum disease

 Same as above.

 Pieces of liver, air sacs, heart with percardium and instestines in formalin.
peticaemia  Swabs from cloaca, spleen (in test tubes) and heart-blood (in Pasteur pipettes) on ice.

 Pieces of liver, bone marrow, spleen, etc in formalin.

 Result to tuberculin test (avian tuberculin to be used).

 Smears of bone-marrow, liver and spleen.

ipelothrix infection  Stab culture from above three organs in gelatin.

 Smears from ulcers of intestine.

rative enteritis  Ulcerated part of intestine in formalin.
il’s disease)  Liver and intestine on ice.

 Same as for ulcertative enteritis.

otic enteritis

 Haemorrhagic pieces of skin muscles and kidneys in formalin.

hylococcosis  Smears from haemorrhagic skin or muscles.

 Piece of lungs, heart and liver in formalin.

ptococcosis  Smears from the lesions.

 Smears from liver, spleen and airsacs.

 Above organs in formalin.
 Above organs in chlamydial transport medium.
  Piece of nose, trachea and lungs in formalin.
tious coryza  Swabs from infraorbital sinus and trachea on ice.
mophilus paragallinarum)

 Smear of synovial fluid.

tious synovitis  Serum from birds sick for atleast 7 or 8 days.
 Pieces of affected synovial sheaths in formalin.
 Liver and spleen on ice.