Objective. identify the presence of chicken anemia virus (CAV) in poultry farms and backyard chickens from Antioquia, Colombia. Materials Methods. Blood feather samples were taken laying chickens; each farm, three birds six different ages (1, 15, 30, 60, 90, 120 days old) chosen randomly. Backyard also obtained near research farms. We used serology molecular techniques to analyze samples. Resul...

A lower price on poultry meat, compared with other meats (beef, pork etc.), affects the increasing demand for poultry meat. The productivity and production cost of broiler chickens are directly related to the amount of feed fed, the proportion of crude protein in the feed, and the biological value and price of the feed. The EU produces only 30% of the protein crops used for feed; thus, the larg...

Listeria species are widely distributed in environment and L. monocytogenes are the causal agent of Listeriosis, the disease that can be serious and fatal to human and animals. The objectives of this study were to detect, isolate and identify Listeria monocytogenes from retail broiler chicken ready to eat meat products in restaurants-Khartoum state, Sudan. A total of 250 retail broiler chicken ...

K.G. Lieu and E.-H. Shim contributed equally to this paper. Correspondence to David A. Jans: [email protected] E.-H. Shim’s present address is Dept. of Urology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL 35233. Abbreviations used in this paper: CLSM, confocal laser scanning microscopy; FL, full length; IBB, importin- binding; IBBL, importin-–binding–like; IMP, importin; IP, immunoprecipitation...

The adjuvant effect of chicken interferon-γ (ChIFN-γ) was examined for protecting chickens against intestinal colonization of Salmonella Enteritidis (SE) following oral exposure. Ten 7-week-old chickens per group were immunized with inactivated SE twice with or without co-administration of ChIFN-γ intramuscularly, and all chickens were challenged with SE. Sera collected from immunized groups wi...