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EPIDEMIOLOGICAL AND MOLECULAR STUDIES ON RIEMERELLA ANATIPESTIFER INFECTION IN DUCKS

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Last updated: 05 Jan 2025

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Avian / Rabbit diseases
Epidemiology
Microbiology, mycology and immunology

Abstract

Infectious serositisis a considerable economic problem in duck industry caused by Riemerella anatipestifer. The current study was conducted to investigate the circulating R. anatipestifer in ducks in Assiut Province and assessing their antimicrobial susceptibility. One-hundred and twenty diseased or freshly dead ducks aging 1-18 weeks were examined. Naturally infected birds showed respiratory, nervous, and locomotor disturbances, and low body weight. R. anatipestifer was detected in 16.6% (20) of birds. Among the bacteriologically positive 20 birds, only 10 could be identified by PCR as R. anatipestifer with a prevalence rate of 8.33%. The sensitivity biogram revealed that all the obtained isolates were sensitive to amoxicillin, doxycycline, and flumequine while resistance to streptomycin, chloramphenicol, ampicillin, erythromycin, spectinomycin, and cephradine was observed. On the basis of MIC, all isolates had 90- 100% sensitivity to doxycycline and amoxicillin, respectively. Experimentally, the isolated R.anatipestifer strains showed pathogenicity to 14-days-old ducklings.

DOI

10.21608/avmj.2021.177849

Keywords

Keywords: Ducks, Riemerella anatipestifer, PCR, MIC, pathogenicity

Authors

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ABD ALRAHMAN AHMED

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Department of Avian and Rabbit Diseases, Faculty of Vet. Medicine, Assiut University, Egypt

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dohabdalrahman780@gmail.com

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MOSTAFA

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SAIF ELDIN

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Department of Avian and Rabbit Diseases, Faculty of Vet. Medicine, Assiut University, Egypt

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SAYED IBRAHIM

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Department of Avian and Rabbit Diseases, Faculty of Vet. Medicine, Assiut University, Egypt

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OMAR

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AMEN

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Department of Avian and Rabbit Diseases, Faculty of Vet. Medicine, Assiut University, Egypt.

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Volume

67

Article Issue

168

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25730

Issue Date

2021-01-01

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2020-12-23

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2021-01-01

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61

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74

Print ISSN

1012-5973

Online ISSN

2314-5226

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https://avmj.journals.ekb.eg/article_177849.html

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Research article

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1,840

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Assiut Veterinary Medical Journal

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https://avmj.journals.ekb.eg/

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EPIDEMIOLOGICAL AND MOLECULAR STUDIES ON RIEMERELLA ANATIPESTIFER INFECTION IN DUCKS

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23 Jan 2023