Amino-acid malabsorption and intestinal leakage of plasma-proteins in young chicks infected with Eimeria acervulina.
The in vivo absorption of 14C-labelled amino-acids and the leakage of radioactive plasma proteins into the gut of infected birds were measured together with their food-intake and growth. The results suggested that anorexia and protein leakage from the gut are major factors in the pathogenesis of E. acervulina infection.
Joyner
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Central Veterinary Laboratory, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, New Haw, Weybridge, Surrey, England.
Patterson
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Berrett
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Boarer
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CD
Cheong
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FH
Norton
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