Quick Diagnosis and Prevention of Poultry Diseases - Color Atlas

Author: Liu Sidang
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Publication Date: 2001-01-01
Features: This book focuses on practical on-site rapid diagnostic techniques, aiming to be well-organized, concise, and illustrated, enabling readers to "identify diseases by pictures and treat them accordingly." Although laboratory diagnostics are not elaborated upon in detail, they are briefly introduced to inform readers about which diseases require which samples and what laboratory tests should be conducted. The section on poultry disease prevention and control is a distillation of the author's extensive practical experience. Avian, also known as Asian chicken fever (commonly referred to as chicken fever or gasping chicken), is a severe infectious disease caused by the newcastle disease virus (NDV) and is currently the most devastating poultry disease in China.