SEROLOGICAL ALTERATIONS IN BROILER BIRDS INFECTED WITH SUB-INFECTIVE COCCIDIOSIS UNDER SUB-LETHAL AFLATOXICOSIS

Abstract

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