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Effects of Aureo-S-700R* on sporulation, viability and infectivity of ovine coccidial oocysts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Jerry A. Ajayi
Jerry A. Ajayi
Affiliation:
Department of Veterinary Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
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Summary

Sporulation rates of normal oocysts and oocysts isolated from lambs infected with coccidia and fed Aureo-S-700R for 25 days were studied at different temperatures. The viability and infectivity of the latter were also investigated.

Temperatures of 5 and 10 °C inhibited sporulation of oocysts, but when the same oocysts were subsequently incubated at 25 °C, they sporulated. At 35 and 40 °C, sporulation was initially fast, but death and degeneration of oocysts occurred at these temperatures after 3 days.

Normal oocysts sporulated faster and in greater numbers than oocysts isolated from medicated lambs; both kinds of oocysts sporulated best between 20 and 25 °C.

Lambs inoculated with oocysts from medicated lambs passed fewer oocysts for a shorter period of time than lambs inoculated with normal oocysts. The former lambs gained more weight, passed better formed faeces, ate better and had higher PCV and haemoglobin values than the latter.

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Research Article
Information
Parasitology , Volume 72 , Issue 3 , June 1976 , pp. 335 - 343
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

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