©1994-2018. All Rights Reserved. Online Journal of Veterinary Research. You may not store
these pages in any form except for your own personal use. All other usage or
distribution is illegal under international copyright treaties. Permission to use any of these pages in any other way besides the
before mentioned must be gained in writing from the publisher. This
article is exclusively copyrighted in its entirety to OJVR publications. This
article may be copied once but may not be, reproduced or re-transmitted without
the express permission of the editors.
OJVRTM
Online Journal of
Veterinary Research©
Volume 10 (1) : 1- 6, 2006. Extensively redacted 2018.
Effect of coccidiosis on
humoral response of chickens vaccinated against hydro-pericardium syndrome.
Akhtar M, Ishaq HM.
Agriculture & Life Science Division,
Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand.
ABSTRACT
Akhtar M, Ishaq HM, Effect of coccidiosis
on the humoral response of chickens vaccinated against hydropericardium
syndrome, Onl J Vet Res., 10 (1):1-6, 2006 An
indirect heaemagglutination (IHA) test was used to
evaluate the effect of coccidiosis on humoral response of chickens vaccinated
against hydro-pericardium syndrome (HPS). IHA antibody titre
against HPS of the experimentally induced coccidiosis chickens ranged from 1:4
to 1:16 (Geomean titre; GMT
6.95) and that of control chickens ranged from 1:32 to 1:512 (GMT 152.17). IHA
antibody titre against HPS of the sera samples
collected from a commercial coccidiosis outbreak broiler flock ranged from
1:8-1:512 (GMT 39.93). Results revealed a significant differences (P<0.05)
in GMT against HPS between experimentally infected, control and field outbreak
cases.
KEY WORDS: Humoral response, hydropericardium
syndrome, coccidiosis, chickens.