. Poultry diseases and their treatment. Poultry. 78 rOUU'RY DISEASES AND THEIR TREATMENT. to do is to send a portion of the intestine containing the worms to the Zoological Division, Bureau of Animal Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. In this way the wiirms will he identified and any specific remedies will be recommended. N'odiilar Tcniiasis. Stiles sa)-s, p. 15: "At least one species of tape worm (Da- â zaiuca tctnn/oim ) causes a serious nodular disease of the intes- tine of chickens which upon superficial examination may be easil}- mistaken for
. Poultry diseases and their treatment. Poultry. 78 rOUU'RY DISEASES AND THEIR TREATMENT. to do is to send a portion of the intestine containing the worms to the Zoological Division, Bureau of Animal Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. In this way the wiirms will he identified and any specific remedies will be recommended. N'odiilar Tcniiasis. Stiles sa)-s, p. 15: "At least one species of tape worm (Da- â zaiuca tctnn/oim ) causes a serious nodular disease of the intes- tine of chickens which upon superficial examination may be easil}- mistaken for ; Moore says (Bur. An. Ind. Circ. Xo. 3, 1895) : "Tuberculosis is the only known disease for which this affection is liable to be mis- taken, and it is of much importance that the two diseases should not be confounded. The diagnosis has not in my experience been diflicult, as in every case the attached tape worms w-ere readily detected upon a close examination of the intestinal con- tents, or of the mucous membrane of the 3^ yi â 'â ' \ infected portion of the intestine. How- -' '' ^ â '^ ^ ever, the worms are quite small and could easily be overlooked in a hurried or cursory examination. In case of doubt, if the af- fected intestine is opened and the mucous surface washed carefully in a gentle stream of water, the small w'orms will be observed hanging to the mucous membrane. This discovery, in the absence of lesions in the liver or other organs, would warrant the diagnosis of the tape worm ; Diagnosis.âThe symptoms of tape worm disease are not specific. The general symp- toms are similar to those of other worms <cf- P- 75)- Regarding the symptoms of tape worms vStiles quotes the following from Ziirn: "If numerous tape worms are present in the intestine of young or old fowls a more or less extensive intestinal catarrh develops, corresponding to the greater or less number of parasites ;. Fig. 7. Intestine of a fowl turned sid
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