fowl cholera

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Duck. 7 months old suffering from fowl cholera and Tetrameres sp. in the proventriculus.

Sri Poernomo

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12+ months old layer suffering from fowl cholera with a swollen wattle.

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Identity

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Preferred Scientific Name

fowl cholera

International Common Names

English: fowl, avian, cholera, pasteurella multocida, gallinarum, in birds; Pasteurella multocida infection in birds

Pathogen/s

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Pasteurella multocida

Overview

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Fowl cholera, caused by Pasteurella multocida, affects domestic and wild birds worldwide. It usually occurs as a septicaemia of sudden onset with high morbidity and mortality, but chronic and asymptomatic infections also occur. For more information, see the datasheet on 'Pasteurella multocida infections'.

Host Animals

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Animal name	Context	Life stage	System
Gallus gallus domesticus (chickens)	Domesticated host
Meleagris	Domesticated host
Meleagris gallopavo (turkey)	Domesticated host

Systems Affected

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blood and circulatory system diseases of poultry
skin and ocular diseases of poultry

Distribution Table

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The distribution in this summary table is based on all the information available. When several references are cited, they may give conflicting information on the status. Further details may be available for individual references in the Distribution Table Details section which can be selected by going to Generate Report.

Last updated: 10 Jan 2020

Continent/Country/Region	Distribution	Reference	Notes
Africa
Algeria	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Benin	Present	OIE (2009)
Botswana	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Burkina Faso	Present	OIE (2009)
Cabo Verde	Present	OIE Handistatus (2005)
Cameroon	Present	OIE Handistatus (2005)
Côte d'Ivoire	Present	OIE Handistatus (2005)
Djibouti	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Egypt	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Eritrea	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Eswatini	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Ethiopia	Present	OIE (2009)
Ghana	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Guinea	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Kenya	Absent, Unconfirmed presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Lesotho	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Madagascar	Present	OIE (2009)
Mali	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Mauritius	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Mozambique	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Namibia	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Nigeria	Present	OIE (2009)
Rwanda	Present	OIE (2009)
Seychelles	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE Handistatus (2005)
South Africa	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Sudan	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Tunisia	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Uganda	Absent, Unconfirmed presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Zimbabwe	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Asia
Armenia	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Azerbaijan	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Bahrain	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Bangladesh	Present	OIE (2009)
Brunei	Present	OIE Handistatus (2005)	CAB Abstracts Data Mining
China	Present, Localized	OIE (2009)
India	Present, Localized	OIE (2009)
Indonesia	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Iran	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Iraq	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Israel	Present	OIE (2009)
Japan	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Jordan	Present	OIE (2009)
Kazakhstan	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Kuwait	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Kyrgyzstan	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Laos	Present	OIE (2009)
Lebanon	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Malaysia	Present	OIE (2009)
-Peninsular Malaysia	Present	OIE Handistatus (2005)
-Sarawak	Present	OIE Handistatus (2005)
Myanmar	Present	OIE (2009)
Nepal	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
North Korea	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE Handistatus (2005)
Pakistan	Present	OIE (2009)
Singapore	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
South Korea	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Sri Lanka	Present	OIE (2009)
Taiwan	Present	OIE Handistatus (2005)
Tajikistan	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Thailand	Present	OIE (2009)
Uzbekistan	Present	OIE Handistatus (2005)
Vietnam	Present	OIE (2009)
Europe
Andorra	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE Handistatus (2005)
Austria	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Belarus	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Belgium	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE Handistatus (2005)
Bulgaria	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Croatia	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Cyprus	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Czechia	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Denmark	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Estonia	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Finland	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Germany	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Greece	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Hungary	Present	OIE (2009)
Iceland	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Ireland	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Isle of Man	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE Handistatus (2005)
Jersey	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE Handistatus (2005)
Latvia	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Liechtenstein	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Lithuania	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Luxembourg	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Malta	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Moldova	Present	OIE Handistatus (2005)
Montenegro	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Netherlands	Present	OIE (2009)
North Macedonia	Absent, Unconfirmed presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Norway	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Portugal	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Romania	Present, Localized	OIE (2009)
Russia	Present	OIE (2009)
Serbia	Present	OIE (2009)
Serbia and Montenegro	Present	OIE Handistatus (2005)
Slovakia	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Slovenia	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Spain	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Sweden	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Switzerland	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Ukraine	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
United Kingdom	Present	OIE (2009)
-Northern Ireland	Present	OIE Handistatus (2005)
North America
Barbados	Present	OIE Handistatus (2005)
Belize	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Bermuda	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE Handistatus (2005)
British Virgin Islands	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE Handistatus (2005)
Canada	Present	OIE (2009)
Cayman Islands	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE Handistatus (2005)
Cuba	Present	OIE (2009)
Curaçao	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE Handistatus (2005)
Dominica	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE Handistatus (2005)
Dominican Republic	Present, Localized	OIE (2009)
Greenland	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Guatemala	Present	OIE (2009)
Honduras	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Jamaica	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Mexico	Present	OIE (2009)
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE Handistatus (2005)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE Handistatus (2005)
United States	Present	OIE (2009)
Oceania
Australia	Present	OIE (2009)
French Polynesia	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
New Caledonia	Present	OIE (2009)
New Zealand	Present	OIE (2009)
Samoa	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE Handistatus (2005)
Vanuatu	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE Handistatus (2005)
South America
Argentina	Present, Localized	OIE (2009)
Bolivia	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Brazil	Present	OIE (2009)
Chile	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Colombia	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Ecuador	Absent, Unconfirmed presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Falkland Islands	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE Handistatus (2005)
French Guiana	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Guyana	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE Handistatus (2005)
Peru	Absent, Unconfirmed presence record(s)	OIE (2009)
Uruguay	Present	OIE (2009)
Venezuela	Absent, No presence record(s)	OIE (2009)

List of Symptoms/Signs

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Sign	Life Stages	Type
Digestive Signs / Anorexia, loss or decreased appetite, not nursing, off feed		Sign
Digestive Signs / Diarrhoea		Sign
Digestive Signs / Excessive salivation, frothing at the mouth, ptyalism		Sign
Digestive Signs / Pica, depraved appetite		Sign
General Signs / Cyanosis, blue skin or membranes		Sign
General Signs / Dehydration		Sign
General Signs / Exercise intolerance, tires easily		Sign
General Signs / Fever, pyrexia, hyperthermia		Sign
General Signs / Head, face, ears, jaw, nose, nasal, swelling, mass		Sign
General Signs / Inability to stand, downer, prostration		Sign
General Signs / Increased mortality in flocks of birds		Sign
General Signs / Lameness, stiffness, stilted gait in birds		Sign
General Signs / Neck weakness, paresis, paralysis, limp, ventroflexion		Sign
General Signs / Orbital, periorbital, periocular, conjunctival swelling, eyeball mass		Sign
General Signs / Sudden death, found dead		Sign
General Signs / Swelling skin or subcutaneous, mass, lump, nodule		Sign
General Signs / Swelling, mass, wing		Sign
General Signs / Torticollis, twisted neck		Sign
General Signs / Trembling, shivering, fasciculations, chilling		Sign
General Signs / Weakness, paresis, paralysis, drooping, of the wings		Sign
Nervous Signs / Dullness, depression, lethargy, depressed, lethargic, listless		Sign
Ophthalmology Signs / Chemosis, conjunctival, scleral edema, swelling		Sign
Ophthalmology Signs / Conjunctival, scleral, injection, abnormal vasculature		Sign
Ophthalmology Signs / Conjunctival, scleral, redness		Sign
Respiratory Signs / Abnormal breathing sounds of the upper airway, airflow obstruction, stertor, snoring		Sign
Respiratory Signs / Abnormal lung or pleural sounds, rales, crackles, wheezes, friction rubs		Sign
Respiratory Signs / Dyspnea, difficult, open mouth breathing, grunt, gasping		Sign
Respiratory Signs / Increased respiratory rate, polypnea, tachypnea, hyperpnea		Sign
Respiratory Signs / Mucoid nasal discharge, serous, watery		Sign
Skin / Integumentary Signs / Ruffled, ruffling of the feathers		Sign
Skin / Integumentary Signs / Skin crusts, scabs		Sign
Skin / Integumentary Signs / Skin necrosis, sloughing, gangrene		Sign
Skin / Integumentary Signs / Skin ulcer, erosion, excoriation		Sign
Skin / Integumentary Signs / Soiling of the feathers, vent feathers		Sign
Skin / Integumentary Signs / Soiling of the vent in birds		Sign

References

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OIE Handistatus, 2002. World Animal Health Publication and Handistatus II (dataset for 2001). Paris, France: Office International des Epizooties.

OIE Handistatus, 2003. World Animal Health Publication and Handistatus II (dataset for 2002). Paris, France: Office International des Epizooties.

OIE Handistatus, 2004. World Animal Health Publication and Handistatus II (data set for 2003). Paris, France: Office International des Epizooties.

OIE Handistatus, 2005. World Animal Health Publication and Handistatus II (data set for 2004). Paris, France: Office International des Epizooties.

OIE, 2009. World Animal Health Information Database - Version: 1.4. World Animal Health Information Database. Paris, France: World Organisation for Animal Health. http://www.oie.int

Distribution References

OIE Handistatus, 2005. World Animal Health Publication and Handistatus II (dataset for 2004)., Paris, France: Office International des Epizooties.

OIE, 2009. World Animal Health Information Database - Version: 1.4., Paris, France: World Organisation for Animal Health. https://www.oie.int/

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