Volume: 48 Issue: 2
Year: 2017, Page: 25-28,
Received: July 2, 2016 Accepted: July 5, 2016 Published: Dec. 31, 2017
Poultry farming is the most organized and economically viable sector in animal agriculture. As sub-lethal AF is a constant threat to broiler industry and produces immunosuppression, birds would be more prone to coccidiosis even under reduced infective dose. So it is important to study the response of sub-infectious dose of coccidia in an immunecompromised state. The susceptibility of broiler chicks to sub-infective dose of sporulated oocyst of Eimeria tenella in sub-lethal aflatoxicosis was revealed by significant alterations in serological parameters.
Keywords: Aflatoxicosis, coccidiosis, broiler birds
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