August 2009

Comparative efficacy of doxycycline and flumequine against experimentally induced colibacillosis in broiler chicks

  This study sought to determine comparative efficacy of doxycycline and flumequine for the treatment of colibacillosis, which is an acute septicaemic disease caused by pathogenic Escherichia coli. This disease has illness coming on in the range widely, death rate is relatively high and some are up to more than 30%, have caused the enormous economic losses. The birds were infected...

Author(s): Haji Akbar, Murad Khan, Ayaz Ali Khan, Muhammad Ali Khan, Muhammad Shuaib, Shamaila Fazal Akbar, Sobia Manzoor, Irshad-ur-rehman, Shakeel Ahmad, Liaqat Ali, Rehmana Khalid and Muhammad Idrees

August 2009

Protective efficacy of commercial live vaccines against very virulent infectious bursal disease virus (vvIBDV) in Ghana

  In spite of the intensive and varied vaccination procedures to control Infectious Bursa Disease (IBD), the emergence of a very virulent (vv) IBD pathotype in Ghana has led to high economic losses in the poultry industry. The potencies of two live intermediate IBD vaccine strains (TAD and Nobilis D78) and an intermediate-plus (hot) vaccine strain (228E) used in Ghana were evaluated by challenging Specific...

Author(s): H. R. Otsyina, J. Amakye-Anim and K. G. Aning