pullorumdisease

pullorumdisease
pul·lo·rum disease (pə-lôrʹəm, -lōrʹ-) n.
A contagious, often fatal diarrheal disease of young poultry, caused by the bacterium Salmonella pullorum and usually transmitted by infected hens through their eggs.
  [New Latin pullōrum, specific epithet, from genitive pl. of Latin pullus, young fowl. See pullet.]

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Universalium. 2010.

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