acute serious bacterial disease of very young birds
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pullorum disease in British English
(pʊˈlɔːrəm)
noun
an acute serious bacterial disease of very young birds, esp chickens, characterized by a whitish diarrhoea: caused by Salmonella pullorum, transmitted during egg production
Also called: bacillary white diarrhoea
Word origin
Latin pullōrum of chickens, from pullus chicken
pullorum disease in American English
(pʌlˈloʊrəm; pʌlˈlɔrəm)
a severe, diarrheal disease of young poultry, caused by a bacterium (Salmonella pullorum) and usually transmitted by the infected hen into the egg
Word origin
< ModL (salmonella) pullorum, the infecting bacterium < gen. pl. of L pullus: see poultry