Coccidiosis in poultry: challenges for the industry
Coccidiosis in poultry is one of the diseases that probably cause most damage in the broiler rearing industry.It is not a case of producing high mortality within flocks but a subclinical process affecting economic performance, greater use of antibiotics and a loss of environmental farm conditions that will probably affect animal welfare.
A new generation of vaccines against coccidiosis in chickens, using attenuated oocysts of different Eimeria spp. , has been launched in recent years and can allow Eimeria prevention using vaccination only.
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