Campus Units

Animal Science

Document Type

Article

Publication Version

Published Version

Publication Date

4-25-2016

Journal or Book Title

British Poultry Science

Volume

57

Issue

2

First Page

165

Last Page

171

DOI

10.1080/00071668.2016.1141172

Abstract

  1. The present study was conducted to compare the susceptibility of congenic Fayoumi lines to Eimeria tenella infection and to assess genetic differences in Eimeria egression.

  2. Chickens were orally inoculated with 5 × 104 sporulated E. tenella oocysts and challenged with 5 × 106 oocysts on the 10th day after the primary infection.

  3. The Fayoumi M5.1 line exhibited higher levels of body weight gain, less oocyst shedding and higher percentages of B and CD4+/CD8+ T cells than the M15.2 chickens.

  4. These results demonstrate that M5.1 line is more resistant to E. tenella infection than M15.2 line. Furthermore, the percentage of sporozoite egress from peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) was higher in the M5.1 line.

  5. The results of this study suggest that enhanced resistance of Fayoumi M5.1 to E. tenella infection may involve heightened cell-mediated and adaptive immunity, resulting in reduced intracellular development of Eimeria parasites.

Comments

This is the Version of Record of an article published by Taylor & Francis in British Poultry Science on April 25, 2016, available online DOI: 10.1080/00071668.2016.1141172.

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en

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