Immunomodulatory effects of lector on chicks vaccinated with Mycoplasma gallisipticum inactivated vaccine

R. El Seedy, Fawzy.; Tamam, S.M.; Sayed Hassan, Hala; Gamal Eldeen Mohamed, Mona

doi:10.21608/jvmr.2017.43324

Immunomodulatory effects of lector on chicks vaccinated with Mycoplasma gallisipticum inactivated vaccine

Document Type : Original Article

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¹ Department of Bacteriology, Mycology and Immunology, Faculty of Vet.Med. Beni-Suef University

² Department of Virology, Faculty of Vet.Med.,Beni-Suef University.

³ Department of Bacteriology, Mycology and Immunology, Faculty of Vet.Med. Beni-Suef University.

10.21608/jvmr.2017.43324

Abstract

The experiment was designed to investigate the immunomodulating effect of lector
50 on general health and immune response of broiler chicks to Mycoplasma
gallisepticum vaccination in commercial broiler chicks. the obtained results reveled
significantly higher effects on body weight ,bursal, and thymic index on lector
treated group of chickens, while no effects on spleen index. Also significant
improvement in total and differential leukocytic count as well as significantly
higher antibody titer was detected by ELISA in lector 50 treated groups.

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