Open AccessMANAGEMENT OF VACCINE-INDUCED INFECTIONS BURSAL DISEASE IN CHICKS WITH ANTIBIOTICS AN ANTIDIARROEICS
Author(s) -
Maduike C. O. Ezeibe
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
nigerian journal of animal production
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0331-2062
DOI - 10.51791/njap.v24i1.2360
Subject(s) - infectious bursal disease , antibiotics , outbreak , flock , medicine , biology , virology , veterinary medicine , microbiology and biotechnology , virulence , biochemistry , gene
An experiment was mounted to investigate if over dosing the chicks with normal infectious bursal disease (IBD) vaccine could be responsible for some of these outbreaks of IBD in vaccinated flocks. The clinical IBD was managed with antibiotics and antidiarrhoeics in order to reduce losses. Three hundred two-week old turkey poults were each administered two doses of IBD vaccine of chick embryo cell culture origin. This produced clinical infectious bursal disease in the cockerel chicks but the turkey Poults did not suffer clinical infection. Administration of an antibiotic- antidiarrhoeic preparation (Ampicilline trihydrate 10% Aluminium hydroxide 80% and sodium bicarbonate 10%) at a dose of 2g per litre of water for five days reduced both morbidity and mortality from 60% and 94% (in the control groups) to 14% and 15% respectively in the Experimental groups.