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Review
11.
An overview on
epidemiologic
investigations of infectious coryza -
Gayatri
Rajurkar, Ashish Roy and Mahendra Mohan Yadav
Veterinary
World 2(10):
401-403
Abstract
Among
infectious diseases, Infectious coryza is one of the
major problems affecting commercial poultry industry
in the developing country like India. It is an upper
respiratory tract disease of chickens caused by
Haemophilus paragallinarum. The economic impact of
the disease is mainly due to increased number of
culls and significant reduction (10 to 40 %) in egg
production, especially on multi-age farms (Blackall
et al., 1997). The research work on infectious
coryza so far in India is so scanty that does not
provides necessary impact analysis of the disease on
the commercial poultry rearers in the country. This
paper presents an overview of the occurrence of the
disease in India and other countries. The paper
compares the economic losses to the poultry owners
due to the disease in developed and developing
countries.
Keywords: Epidemiology, Infectious Coryza,
Investigation, Poultry, Economy, Incidence,
Serotype.
