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Performance in Chickens and Turkeys of Chicken-Adapted Heterakis gallinarum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2009

Everett E. Lund ,
Anne M. Chute  and
Sara L. Myers
Everett E. Lund
Affiliation:
Beltsville Parasitological Laboratory, Animal Disease and Parasite Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland
Anne M. Chute
Affiliation:
Beltsville Parasitological Laboratory, Animal Disease and Parasite Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland
Sara L. Myers
Affiliation:
Beltsville Parasitological Laboratory, Animal Disease and Parasite Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland
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1. Helerakis gallinarum recovered from chickens, and apparently having lived exclusively or predominantly in chickens for several years, thrived better in chickens than in turkeys, when several hundred embryonated eggs were given in a single feeding.

2. Use of a smaller inoculum reduced the difference in the worm's performance in its traditional host and the new host species.

3. Performance in both species of host was the same following the feeding of small numbers of eggs from worms grown 1 generation in turkeys.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Helminthology , Volume 44 , Issue 1 , March 1970 , pp. 97 - 106
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1970

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