Anticoccidial vaccination of broiler chickens in various management programmes: Relationship between oocyst accumulation in litter and the development of protective immunity

Veterinary Research Communications

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 309-325

  Williams, R B ^a   Johnson, J D ^a   Andrews, S J ^a  

^a Schering Plough Animal Health   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Broiler breeders; Chickens; Coccidiosis; Eimeria necatrix; Epidemiology; Litter; Oocysts; Protective immunity; Vaccines

Indexed keywords

COCCIDIOSTATIC AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; COCCIDIOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EIMERIA; IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; VACCINATION;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CHICKENS; COCCIDIOSIS; EIMERIA; FECES; FEMALE; MALE; PARASITE EGG COUNT; POULTRY DISEASES; PROTOZOAN VACCINES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; VACCINATION; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALIA; AVES; EIMERIA; EIMERIA NECATRIX; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0034044387     PISSN: 01657380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006492021776     Document Type: Article

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