crop mycosis (thrush, candidiasis)• very ubiquitous in normal flora • follows debilitating...
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CROP MYCOSIS (THRUSH,
CANDIDIASIS)
• Most common mycotic diseases of poultry
• Most important in young poults and occasionally
cage layers
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ETIOLOGY
Candida albicans
• Very ubiquitous in normal flora
• Follows debilitating condition
• Broad spectrum antibiotics favor development by disruption
of normal flora balance.
• Seen in “spiking mortality” poults due to antibiotic use.
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INCUBATION PERIOD
• Experimentally about 30 days, but has been
found in 7-14 day old poults
• Induced by giving sugar water to poults.
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COURSE OF DISEASE
• 3 to 4 weeks
• May become chronic, then
several weeks
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MORTALITY
• Poults and chicks - up to 20 to 30%
• Older birds - after 4 weeks usually low
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METHOD OF SPREAD
1. Drinking water
a) associated with unsanitary, over-crowded
condition
b) slimy water founts, wet litter
2. Infected birds source of contamination
3. Cages due to decreased bacterial competition
No contact with feces.
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SYMPTOMS
• Poor growth
• "Sick chick attitude"
• In layers - decrease egg production 15 to
20%
• Birds vomit in feed trough
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POSTMORTEM LESIONS
• Non-inflammatory - thickened crop and/or mouth
• White, circular, raised ulcer-like formation
• Pseudomembrane
• Proventriculitis
Gizzard erosion
• Can occasionally be cultured from the liver.
• May cause splotchy hemorrhages in the digestive tract.
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Crop mycosis
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Crop mycosis
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Crop mycosis
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Crop mycosis
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Esophageal lesion
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Gizzard erosion
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Enteritis
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DIAGNOSIS
• Suggestive - typical lesions, non-inflammatory
• Positive - isolation and identification
– Special medias used:
• Corn meal agar
• Biggy agar - brown colony with white halo
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Biggy agar
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Wet mount
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TREATMENT
Mycostatin (nystatin)
100 gm/ton 7-10 days
CuSO4
1:2000 in water, 1-3 #/ton
Chlorine in the drinking water at 5 ppm.
Clean up
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PREVENTION
• Maintain sanitation
• Avoid prolonged use of broad spectrum antibiotics
• Mycostatin (nystatin) in feed 50 gm/ton
• Ca++ or Na+ propionate in feed 3-5 #/ton
• Propionic acid antifungals in feed 1-4 #/ton.
(Depends on concentration of active ingredient).
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