Avian research involving examination of immune function or testing of immunocompetence in wild birds has been based upon information on Galliforms, (chicken and quail) even though they are precocial, whereas most wild species with which ecologists, biologists and toxicologists work are altricial; blind, naked and completely dependent at hatching. Here we begin to address this gap in knowledge, ...

The present study was designed to investigate effects of Lisovit (Biomin, Austria) on the immune system of broiler chickens. For this purpose, 270 (day-old) broiler chicks were randomly divided into three groups A, B and C of 90 birds each. The birds were vaccinated against Newcastle Disease (ND) on day 3 (intraocular) and day 18 (drinking water) of age and against Infectious Bursal Disease (IB...

The immunogenic response and protection of duck with capsular extract of local isolate of duck cholera organism, i.e. Pasteurella multocida was compared with that of conventional fowl cholera vaccine prepared in Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh. Feces, liver, heart, lungs, trachea and intestinal swabs were collected from a total of 50 sick and apparently healthy ducks. The duck ch...

Abstract Fowl pox vaccine is produced in the Razi Institute for almost half a century and has a favorable and productive yield in poultry flocks and has provided complete satisfaction to the poultry breeder. In terms of comparing the efficacy of this vaccine with imported vaccines, the following research was conducted. In this study, based on the latest protocols of European Pharmacopeia and O...

Abstract Background and Aims: Vaccination of poultry has a major impact on the prevention and control of avian influenza viruses. Nanobiotechnology techniques provide a new approach for improvement of influenza vaccine efficacy. In this study, efficacy of an inactivated nano-adjuvant vaccine developed based on an endemic H9N2 virus was evaluated in SPF chickens. Materials and Methods: I...

Newcastle disease virus (NDV) was isolated from a field outbreak in pigeons. The virus was characterized by haemagglutination test (HA) and confirmed by haemagglutination inhibition test (HAI). The pathotyping was done by mean death time (MDT), intracerebral pathogenicity index (ICPI) and intravenous pathogenicity index (IVPI). The ELD50 of the velogenic strain was 10/0.1 ml. Thirty-nine pigeon...

abstract background and aims: vaccination of poultry has a major impact on the prevention and control of avian influenza viruses. nanobiotechnology techniques provide a new approach for improvement of influenza vaccine efficacy. in this study, efficacy of an inactivated nano-adjuvant vaccine developed based on an endemic h9n2 virus was evaluated in spf chickens. materials and methods: in each t...