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Salmonella vs Pullorum - What's the difference?

salmonella | pullorum |

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

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * salmonellosis

    See also

    * ("salmonella" on Wikipedia) ----

    pullorum

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (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:
  • 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.
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