Since the EU ban on battery cages, many studies have listed Ascaridia galli and Heterakis gallinarum as most common roundworms in European laying hen population. A complicating factor is that eggs of these parasites are almost identical. Thus, lack molecular diagnostic approaches has driven epidemiological to take necropsy for species discrimination, which labor cost intensive. Here, we describ...

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Galli-Galli disease is a rare genodermatosis currently regarded as an acantholytic variant of Dowling-Degos disease. The 2 diseases have the same clinical features: reticular hyperpigmented macules in the great skin folds, erythematous scaly papules and plaques, comedo-like lesions, and pitted perioral scars, and the only differentiating characteristic is the histological finding of acantholysi...

The adverse effects of parasitic gastrointestinal diseases on poultry production are enormous, especially where birds kept under extensive or semi-intensive systems, but the rarely recognized as primary problems except during necropsy examinations. A two-year longitudinal cohort prospective study was conducted from October 2018 to September 2020 determine prevalence and diagnostic features in V...