Volume: 48 Issue: 2
Year: 2017, Page: 34-37,
Received: July 2, 2016 Accepted: July 4, 2016 Published: Dec. 31, 2017
A study was conducted in 72 day-old broiler birds to evaluate the variation in serum parameters in subinfective dose of coccidiosis under sublethal ochratoxicosis for a period of 21 days. Treatment group was fed with ochratoxin A (OTA) and oocysts of Eimeria tenella and serum parameters were analysed day one, three and seven post-inoculation. Significant increase was observed in serum aspartate amino transferase, creatinine, uric acid and urea concentration while significant decrease was noticed in total protein, albumin, globulin and A/G ratio.
Keywords: Ochratoxicosis, coccidiosis, Eimeria tenella
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