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Pullorum Disease

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Noun

1. bacillary white diarrhea, bacillary white diarrhoea, pullorum disease

a serious bacterial disease of young chickens

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Pullorum Disease

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acute serious bacterial disease of very young birds
noun
an acute serious bacterial disease of very young birds, esp chickens, characterized by a whitish diarrhoea: caused by Salmonella pullorum, transmitted during egg production
. Also called: bacillary white diarrhoea

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Pullorum Disease

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a severe, diarrheal disease of young poultry, caused by a bacterium (Salmonella pullorum) and usually transmitted by the infected hen into the egg

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Pullorum Disease

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n.
A contagious, often fatal diarrheal disease of young poultry, caused by salmonella bacteria and usually transmitted by infected hens through their eggs.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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