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ABSTRACT A preliminary study was carried out to determine the prevalence of Aflatoxin B1 (AfB1) contamination and common moulds growing in some selected poultry feed ingredients in Zaria town, Nigeria. Twenty-five (25) samples of five different feed ingredients, which included Maize (MZ), soybean cake (SBC), groundnut cake (GNC), brewers dried grain (BDG) and maize offal (M/O) were collected. Samples were collected in March from four commercial feed mills and the ...

ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to determine the immune response of broiler chickens to Eimeria tenella developmental stages Four hundred broilers divided into six groups (n=40) were used for the study. Each group was subdivided into two (n=20) as treated and non-treated and infected with different developmental stges of Eimeria tenella (local isolate). The molecular identification of the local Eimeria tenella isolate identity was done through polymerase chain ...