Alessia Zoroaster, Yazavinder Singh, Erica Marchiori, Marco Cullere, Giorgia Dotto, Giovanni Franzo, Antonio Frangipane di Regalbono
Similarly to poultry industry, coccidiosis may cause significant economic losses also in the commercial quail industry, an emerging sector undergoing uneven development around the world. Although scant and mostly dated, the available literature reports detailed morphological and morphometric features of both oocysts and sporocysts of the Eimeria species hitherto recognized in Japanese quails, i.e. E. tsunodai, E. uzura, E. bateri, and E. fluminensis. Mixed infections are very common in the field and require an accurate differential diagnosis of diverse species of coccidia, identifying the highly pathogenic ones, in particular E...
December 30, 2023: Poultry Science