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Descriptor English: Poultry Diseases
Descriptor Spanish: Enfermedades de las Aves de Corral
Descriptor enfermedades de las aves de corral
Scope note: Enfermedades de las aves que se crían como fuente de carne o huevos para el consumo humano y que usualmente se encuentran en granjas, criaderos, etc. El concepto se diferencia del de ENFERMEDADES DE LAS AVES en que se aplica a enfermedades de aves no consideradas de corral y que se encuentran usualmente en zoológicos, parques y en estado salvaje.
Descriptor Portuguese: Doenças das Aves Domésticas
Descriptor French: Maladies de la volaille
Entry term(s): Disease, Poultry
Diseases, Poultry
Poultry Disease
Tree number(s): C22.131.728
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D011201
Scope note: Diseases of birds which are raised as a source of meat or eggs for human consumption and are usually found in barnyards, hatcheries, etc. The concept is differentiated from BIRD DISEASES which is for diseases of birds not considered poultry and usually found in zoos, parks, and the wild.
Annotation: coord IM with specific poultry (IM); for abnormalities or injuries, index under POULTRY /abnorm or POULTRY /inj; don't forget also POULTRY (NIM) if no specific fowl is indexed; also check tag ANIMALS; differentiate from BIRD DISEASES on basis of definition of BIRDS & POULTRY under POULTRY
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
TM transmission
UR urine
VI virology
Entry Version: POULTRY DIS
DeCS ID: 11639
Unique ID: D011201
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2004/07/13
Poultry Diseases - Preferred
Concept UI M0017390
Scope note Diseases of birds which are raised as a source of meat or eggs for human consumption and are usually found in barnyards, hatcheries, etc. The concept is differentiated from BIRD DISEASES which is for diseases of birds not considered poultry and usually found in zoos, parks, and the wild.
Preferred term Poultry Diseases
Entry term(s) Disease, Poultry
Diseases, Poultry
Poultry Disease



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