Coccidiosis remains one of the most important diseases in the poultry industry and results in the annual loss of millions of US dollars by the poultry industry. In South Africa and other developing countries where a large percentage of the population is unemployed, cheap food production is necessary. If the control of the coccidian parasite could be made more economical, these savings could be ...

A probiotic containing Bacillus mesentericus, Clostridium butyricum, and Streptococcus faecalis [AVITEAM] was evaluated in damage control and synergism with vaccination against coccidial infection in broilers, using morphometric measurements and histopathological observations. It was mixed in feeds and vaccination was done by inoculating birds with an attenuated live vaccine containing Eimeria ...

vaccination has greatly improved human health. despite of all improvements in this field, there is not an efficient vaccine for many diseases, and of the available ones, some could not produce a long-term immunity. recently, there have been many researches on the applicability of nanostructures as an efficient system for vaccine delivery, and the initial results have been promising. their poten...

Fecal samples were collected from 655 passerine birds representing 190 species from 13 collection sites in Guyana, Ecuador, Peru, and Argentina from August, 1990 August, 1997. The fecal samples were stored in 2.5% K2Cr2O7 and examined for coccidian oocysts within six weeks after collection. The overall prevalence of coccidian parasites in the samples was 20.9% (137/655). The one-sample test of ...