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Parts Infested —Feet, lips, gums and nostrils. 
Symptoms.—Manifests itself as ulcerous patches 
on lips, gums, nostrils, and involves the sensitive struc- 
tures of the foot. The granular masses found in the 
ulcers contain the amoeba. 
Treatment.—Copperas solution or any antiseptic as 
a one-percent solution of kreso or creolin. 
AMOEBA MELEAGRIDIS. 
Distribution Found in various parts of the United 
States. 
Description——They are microscopic granular proto- 
plasmic masses from ten to fifteen microns in 
diameter. 
Animal Infested —The turkey and occasionally the 
hen. 
Parts Infested—Caecum and liver. 
Symptoms.—Loss of appetite; droopy; head down; 
diarrhoea; feathers erect; emaciation and death. 
Most fatal in young birds from one to four months 
old. 
Condition Produced—Thickening of the walls of 
the caecum due to inflammation as a result of the in- 
vasion of the protozoon and ulceration. The liver is 
congested or inflamed, has brownish or yellowish 
areas of degeneration and necrosis and edema in 
region of heart. There is a blackish discoloration of 
the head. A systemic eosinophilia is noted. Cloudy 
swelling of focal necrosis has been noted in the 
kidney. 
Name of Disease —Entero-hepatitis, black head. 
Treatment.—Intestinal antiseptics, as teaspoonful 
doses of listerine, bi-chloride of mercury solution 
one to ten thousand, or carbolic acid one to five 
hundred. 
