Investigations on the carrier rate ofPasteurella multocidain healthy commercial poultry flocks and flocks affected by fowl cholera

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Twenty flocks of web-footed birds (Pekin and Muscovy ducks and geese) and eight flocks of chickens raised under intensive management were examined for the presence of carriers of Pasteurella multocida. Five hundred and seventy-eight web-footed birds and 240 chickens from healthy flocks, as well as from flocks affected by fowl cholera, were investigated. A total of 135 isolates (80 from healthy flocks and 55 from...

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