Sero-Epidemiological Study of Avian Mycoplasma Gallisepticum in Chicken Flocks in Syria
published by Aِl-Baath University
in 2015
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and research's language is
العربية
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It was collected 2990 blood samples from various ages of chicken of
broiler, layer and breeder flocks distributed from different regions of
SAR, in order to detect Mycoplasma Galisepticum that used in Rapid
sero- agglutination test and indirect ELISA test. The study reported seroprevalence
of positive cases using rapid sero- agglutination test 33% in
broiler breeder, 1% in broiler chicken and 43% in layer chicken and
overall prevalence 24%. And by using ELISA test, the reported seroprevalence
values 27% in breeder, 8% in broiler and 33% in layer
chicken and overall-prevalence 19%.
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