Erysipelas in quail and suspected erysipeloid in processing plant employees.

Abstract

Erysipelas was diagnosed in two commercial breeder flocks of Coturnix quail and was characterized clinically by sudden mortality. At necropsy, lesions comprised generalized congestion, hemorrhages in the thigh and breast muscles, swelling of liver, spleen, and kidney, and dark red edematous lungs. Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae was cultured from visceral organs of affected birds. Medication with penicillin in the drinking water controlled the mortality. A possible source of infection was fish raised on the premises. Seven people at the quail processing plant developed localized inflammation of the fingers, which responded when antibiotic therapy for erysipeloid was initiated.

• Authors: A Mutalib, R Keirs, F Austin
• Journal: Avian diseases (Avian Dis) 1995 Jan-Mar Vol. 39 Issue 1 Pg. 191-3 ISSN: 0005-2086 [Print] United States
• PMID: 7794182 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)

Chemical References

• Penicillin G

Topics

• Animals
• Coturnix
• Disease Outbreaks (prevention & control)
• Erysipelas (epidemiology, pathology, veterinary)
• Erysipelothrix (isolation & purification)
• Hemorrhage
• Humans
• Kidney (microbiology, pathology)
• Liver (microbiology, pathology)
• Lung (pathology)
• Muscles (pathology)
• Occupational Diseases (epidemiology, microbiology)
• Penicillin G (therapeutic use)
• Poultry Diseases
• Spleen (microbiology, pathology)