fowl cholera

noun

, Veterinary Pathology.

a specific, acute, diarrheal disease of fowls, especially chickens, caused by a bacterium, Pasteurella multocida.

fowl cholera

vet science a contagious disease of poultry and other fowl, usually resulting in sudden death; caused by the organism Pasteurella multocida

First recorded in 1880–85

This he also proved to be caused by a minute form of life, and that fowl cholera is due to still another form of micro-organism.

The central nervous system was to the virus of rabies what the test-tube was to the virus of fowl-cholera or anthrax.

Thus, then, as in fowl cholera, attenuated cultures of the microbe can be obtained.

We have seen how the facts have been established with regard to the microbe of fowl cholera.

Between this microbe and the microbe of fowl cholera there exists an essential difference.

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