Efficacy of maduramicin against turkey coccidiosis in battery: a clinical and pathological study.

Abstract

Two groups of 24 three-day-old turkeys each were inoculated with Eimeria meleagrimitis sporulated oocytes and fed a diet containing respectively 5 and 6 ppm of maduramicin ammonium. Clinical signs, mortality rates, weight gain, intestinal lesions and replication of the parasite were compared to the data obtained from a group of infected, untreated birds kept in the same experimental conditions over a period of 17 days. The treated birds showed better performances and less severe intestinal damages; the replication and the development of the parasite in the intestinal mucosa were impaired and delayed by the drug. All the data were dose dependent.

• Authors: S Cerruti Sola, A Leoni, A Agostini, M Castagnaro
• Journal: Schweizer Archiv fur Tierheilkunde (Schweiz Arch Tierheilkd) Vol. 138 Issue 4 Pg. 201-6 ( 1996) ISSN: 0036-7281 [Print] Switzerland
• PMID: 8677425 (Publication Type: Journal Article)

Chemical References

• Anti-Bacterial Agents
• Ionophores
• Lactones
• maduramicin

Topics

• Animals
• Anti-Bacterial Agents (therapeutic use)
• Coccidiosis (drug therapy, pathology, veterinary)
• Eimeria
• Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic (drug therapy, pathology, veterinary)
• Ionophores (therapeutic use)
• Lactones (therapeutic use)
• Male
• Poultry Diseases (drug therapy, pathology)
• Turkeys (parasitology)