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Chemotatic effect of different treatments on heterophils from healthy chickens and chickens with staphylococcal infection

Creator:

Anwer, Mohammad

Abstract:

Staphylococcal tenosynovitis and osteomyelitis are world-wide problems of broilers and broiler breeders caused by staphylococci. Pathogenesis of the disease is ill defined. Avian heterophils are analogous to mammalian neutrophils but the granules appear to be different. The first chemotactic study was done on heterophils from chickens having natural staphylococcal infection...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis

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like to extend my appreciations to Dr. Claire B. Andreasen of Veterinary Science, Dr. Dale Weber of