The pathogenicity of Salmonella Kentucky, Salmonella Typhimurium, Salmonella Shubra and Salmonella Enteritidis were investigated in specific-pathogenfree chicks (SPF) and BALB/c mice. Mortality rates after the 1 st week of infection with the four serovars, only S. Typhimurium and S. Enteritidis produced a fulminate infection (88%) in each of the chicks and mice. The lowest mortality was seen in...

The IgY-technology stand for the immunisation of chickens and the extraction of specific IgY antibodies (Ab) from egg yolk. Due to the non-invasive Ab isolation IgY-technology is internationally accepted as so-called alternative method. Despite of the aspect of animal welfare Ab production in chicken offers also outstanding economical advantages. i) purchase of chickens is much more cheep than ...

Reovirus infections are actually related to a lot of disease conditions with different clinical manifestations. Reoviruses have been isolated from a variety of tissues in poultry, suffering from different disease conditions including viral arthritis/tenosynovitis, stunting syndrome, respiratory disease, enteric disease, immunosuppression and malabsorption syndrome. Economic losses related to re...

This experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of olive leaf (OL) on immune response and some blood metabolites of broiler chickens. A total of 400 one-day-old broiler chicks (male and female) were randomly assigned to 5 experimental treatments with 4 replicates of 20 birds each. Birds of different treatments were given diets containing 0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75 and 1% OL powder from 14 to 4...

The reuse of poultry litter is a common practice in the Brazilian poultry industry for flocks of healthy chickens, due to 2 fundamental aspects: production cost and environmental sustainability. Litter is a potentially important source of infection for Salmonella, which requires characterization by microbiological analysis in different aspects of management and reuse. The objective of this stud...

Food-borne salmonellosis continues to be a major health concern worldwide. Carrycontamination of Salmonella frequently occurs in meat production. We focused on cell dynamics of swine fibroblasts after infection with Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis and Typhimurium, because fibroblast can be a target cell for Salmonella latent infection. It was found that both S. Enteritidis and S. Typhim...

Campylobacter spp. are regarded as the most common bacterial cause of gastroenteritis worldwide, and consumption of chicken meat contaminated by Campylobacter is considered to be one of the most frequent sources of human infection in developed countries. Here we evaluated the immunogenicity and protective efficacy of Salmonella Typhimurium χ9718 producing the Campylobacter jejuni CjaA protein a...