EFFECT OF VOLATILE OILS ON CONCOMITANT INFECTION OF ORNITHOBACTERIUM RHINOTRACHEAL “ORT” AND VELOGENIC VISCEROTROPIC NEWCASTLE DISEASE “VVND” IN CHICKENS. | ||||
Veterinary Medical Journal (Giza) | ||||
Volume 50, Issue 2, April 2002, Page 289-298 PDF (3.09 MB) | ||||
Document Type: Original Article | ||||
DOI: 10.21608/vmjg.2002.369255 | ||||
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Authors | ||||
M AWAAD* 1; A EL-GOHARY2; H SULTAN2 | ||||
1Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Tanta University. | ||||
2Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cairo University. | ||||
Abstract | ||||
Typical respiratory and nervous clinical signs have been recorded after concomitant ORT and VVND infection together with classical postmortem lesions. These clinical signs and postmortem lesions varied in severity in different experiment- ed groups with maximum extreme in non- vaccinated non-treated infected groups, and mini- mum extreme in vaccinated volatile oils plus amoxicillin treated groups. Regardless of NDV vaccination, milder respiratory clinical signs in volatile oils treated groups together with significant increase in the final body weight were recorded as compared with non- treated control groups. However concomitant treatment of volatile oils and amoxicillin (specific antibiotic for ORT) gave the superior results in protection rate and performance including final body weight and relative weight gain percentage. Liquefying thick and sticky mucous and shrink- age of respiratory mucous membranes by the effect of volatile oils assumed to provide a relief in birds breathing and consequently, hypoxia is avoided which improves efficacious of the birds feed- intake, general health conditions, resistance to infectious agents and zootechnical perforMance. Volatile oils improved the immune response against NDV vaccination and the increase in response was dose dependent. | ||||
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