Study of some bacterial isolates associated with broiler synovitis in Kerbala Province

Abstract

The present study was conducted to identify the prevalence of predominant bacterial microorganisms of synovitis in broilers , a comprehensive study of bacterial isolates from pus/fluid of synovial fluid taken from broiler chicken at 15, 20 and 25 old days from the Kerbala poultry flocks in the Karbala province, Iraq . over a period of three months from April until June 2015 were undertaken. The results revealed that ratio of isolation were 23 (51.1%) among forty five samples of synovial fluid and classified as Escherichia coli 33.3% , Streptococcus spp 8.8% and Salmonella spp 8.8% , on the other hand the study showed that there is no significant difference (P>0.05) between the age and isolations month.