Prevalence of coccidiosis in broiler-chicken farms in the Kerbala and Babylon provinces ,Iraq

  • Dhamiaa Make Hamza
  • Zuhair Muhammad Ali Jeddoa
  • Hadi Rasol Hasan Al-Massodi

Abstract

        Coccidiosis is an intestinal disease of chickens  caused  by various species of protozoan parasites within the genus Eimeria. Diagnosis and genetic characterization of different species of Eimeria are central to the prevention ,  surveillance ,  and  control  of  coccidiosis.  The  aim  of the present study was to identified different poultry Eimeria species  that considered the causal agents of poultry  coccidiosis in each of the Kerbala and Babylon provinces.           The  present   study   observations  were  revealed  platuation (  increasing   and decreasing)    the   percentages  of    infection    with   coccidiosis   during different   months  of  a  year  and   that   due   to   the   large   change   in temperature  and humidity in Iraq,         A lot off 200 samples of  feces  and  intestines  were  collected  from chickens that suspected infection with coccidiosis during the period from August 2013 to July 2014 and the results revealed  that 160 samples were positive  depending  on  the  macroscopic  and  microscopic   examination Which  diagnosed   three  species  of  Eimeria  includes   E.tenella  which formed the largest proportion of the total positive  samples  (66.8%)  then the species E.necatrix which accounted for (30%) and finally the species E.maxima which form (3.13%).         The  results  showed  that  the highest  percentage  of infection in  both  of  Kerbala   and   Babylon    provinces  were  in  December (23.12%) and the lowest percentage in July (1.87%).

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Published
2018-05-05
How to Cite
Make Hamza, D., Muhammad Ali Jeddoa, Z., & Rasol Hasan Al-Massodi, H. (2018). Prevalence of coccidiosis in broiler-chicken farms in the Kerbala and Babylon provinces ,Iraq. Al-Qadisiyah Journal of Pure Science, 23(2), 30 - 38. https://doi.org/10.29350/jops.2018.23.2.735
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