Eimeria species cause the intestinal disease coccidiosis, most notably in poultry. While the direct impact of coccidiosis on animal health and welfare is clear, its influence on the enteric microbiota and by-stander effects on chicken health and production remains largely unknown, with the possible exception of Clostridium perfringens (necrotic enteritis). This study evaluated the composition a...

The attention of laboratory workers is drawn to the possibility of coccidiosis as a cause of death in guinea-pigs. The purchase of a number of guinea-pigs infected with this protozoon was followed by 12 deaths when these animals were injected with material for diagnostic purposes. No deaths occurred in the laboratory stock herd, as these were kept separate from the newcomers and were not infect...

Eimeria tenella is one of the important species as it causes caecal coccidiosis in chickens. Coccidiosis is believed to be controlled effectively using vaccines. The present study investigated the prophylactic efficacy of two locally prepared vaccines against caecal coccidiosis in broiler chicken. Broiler chicks (n = 80) were divided in four different groups A, B, C and D (n = 20 birds/group), ...

The water buffalo (Bubalus bubalus) is important to the economy of several countries, especially in Asia and Brazil. Little is known of the impact of coccidiosis in buffaloes. Cattle and buffaloes are considered to have common species of Eimeria but critical cross transmissions have not been made because it is difficult to raise these hosts coccidian free. Clinical coccidiosis was confirmed pos...

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Introduction Coccidiosis is one of the most important diseases of poultry caused by protozoa, Eimeria and is generally characterized by bloody diarrhea, the primary symptom and high mortality. The bloody diarrhea is mainly due to intestinal epithelium dying off since a large number of oocysts and merozoites burst out of the cells. The disease spreads from one bird to another by contact with inf...

BACKGROUND The present study was conducted to investigate the effects of dietary plant-derived phytonutrients, carvacrol, cinnamaldehyde and Capsicum oleoresin, on the translational regulation of genes associated with immunology, physiology and metabolism using high-throughput microarray analysis and in vivo disease challenge model of avian coccidiosis. METHODS In this study, we used nutrigen...

Coccidiosis in chickens is caused by 7 species of Eimeria. Even though coccidiosis is a complex disease that can be caused by any combination of these species, most of the molecular research concerning chicken coccidiosis has been limited to Eimeria tenella. The present study describes the first large-scale analysis of expressed sequence tags (ESTs) generated primarily from second-stage merozoi...

Abstract Coccidiosis is a critical enteric disease that costs more than $14.5 billion in annual cost to world poultry industry. It caused by different Eimeriaspecies invade and replicate within the intestinal epithelium site-specific manner. The Eimeriainfection induces local damage, reduces feed consumption, utilization, growth performance, increasing mortality rate. With recent antibiotic ban...