Control of chicken coccidiosis.
Coccidiosis could potentially cause enormous economic loss to the poultry industry, especially in the production of broiler chickens (see Box 1). Losses are currently minimized by chemotherapeutic treatment but the effectiveness of many drugs seems to be declining. In this article, Peter Long and Tom Jeffers discuss the future for coccidial chemotherapy, and the potential for immunological control methods.
Long
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Department of Poultry Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA.
Jeffers
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