Coccidiosis: recent progress in host immunity and alternatives to antibiotic strategies

Y Lee, M Lu, HS Lillehoj - Vaccines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Coccidiosis is an avian intestinal disease caused by several distinct species of Eimeria
parasites that damage the host's intestinal system, resulting in poor nutrition absorption …

Controlling the causative agents of coccidiosis in domestic chickens; an eye on the past and considerations for the future

E Attree, G Sanchez-Arsuaga, M Jones, D Xia… - CABI Agriculture and …, 2021 - Springer
Coccidiosis is a potentially severe enteritis caused by species of obligate intracellular
parasites of the genus Eimeria. These parasites cause significant economic losses to the …

[PDF][PDF] Avian coccidiosis: Recent advances in alternative control strategies and vaccine development

HF Khater, H Ziam, A Abbas, RZ Abbas… - Agrobiol …, 2020 - agrobiologicalrecords.com
Coccidiosis induces huge economic losses to poultry production. Its control through
anticoccidial live vaccines and drugs has been very successful with some limitations …

Live attenuated anticoccidial vaccines for chickens

Q Liu, X Liu, X Zhao, XQ Zhu, X Suo - Trends in Parasitology, 2023 - cell.com
Chicken coccidiosis, caused by infection with single or multiple Eimeria species, results in
significant economic losses to the global poultry industry. Over the past decades …

A review of Eimeria antigen identification for the development of novel anticoccidial vaccines

J Venkatas, MA Adeleke - Parasitology research, 2019 - Springer
Coccidiosis is a major poultry disease which compromises animal welfare and costs the
global chicken industry a huge economic loss. As a result, research entailing coccidial …

Designing multiepitope-based vaccine against Eimeria from immune mapped protein 1 (IMP-1) antigen using immunoinformatic approach

T Madlala, VT Adeleke, AJ Fatoba, M Okpeku… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Drug resistance against coccidiosis has posed a significant threat to chicken welfare and
productivity worldwide, putting daunting pressure on the poultry industry to reduce the use of …

Vaccination against poultry parasites

R Hauck, KS Macklin - Avian Diseases, 2024 - meridian.allenpress.com
The complexity of parasites and their life cycles makes vaccination against parasitic
diseases challenging. This review highlights this by discussing vaccination against four …

Efficient Single-Gene and Gene Family Editing in the Apicomplexan Parasite Eimeria tenella Using CRISPR-Cas9

D Hu, X Tang, C Ben Mamoun, C Wang… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Eimeria species are pathogenic protozoa with a wide range of hosts and the cause of poultry
coccidiosis, which results in huge economic losses to the poultry industry. These parasites …

Laboratory Growth and Genetic Manipulation of Eimeria tenella

I Pastor‐Fernández, E Pegg… - Current Protocols in …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Eimeria is a genus of apicomplexan parasites that contains a large number of species, most
of which are absolutely host‐specific. Seven species have been recognized to infect …

Vaccination with transgenic Eimeria tenella expressing Eimeria maxima AMA1 and IMP1 confers partial protection against high-level E. maxima challenge in a …

I Pastor-Fernández, S Kim, V Marugán-Hernández… - Parasites & …, 2020 - Springer
Background Poultry coccidiosis is a parasitic enteric disease with a highly negative impact
on chicken production. In-feed chemoprophylaxis remains the primary method of control, but …