Salmonella vs Pullorum - What's the difference?
salmonella | pullorum |
Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella , that cause food poisoning and other diseases
:Everyone got sick from salmonella in the undercooked meat.
(veterinary medicine) A severe infectious disease of young poultry, caused by a form of the salmonella bacterium.
* 1985 , (Peter Carey), Illywhacker , Faber and Faber 2003, p. 246:
As a proper noun salmonella
is .As a noun pullorum is
(veterinary medicine) a severe infectious disease of young poultry, caused by a form of the salmonella bacterium.salmonella
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* salmonellosisSee also
* ("salmonella" on Wikipedia) ----pullorum
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(-)- I should recount my own experience with chooks – and I do not mean the difficulties, with lice, mites, fowl pox, pullorum or bum-drop about which subjects Goon's otherwise taciturn cousin gave me enough information to last a lifetime.
