[Development of Eimeria tenella, agent of cecal coccidiosis in chickens, in non-specific hosts: existence of an infective exointestinal form]

C R Seances Acad Sci III. 1982 Jan 25;294(4):219-21.
[Article in French]

Abstract

The administration of various organs from Mice inoculated 1 to 7 days before with E. tenella oocysts induced caecal coccidiosis in Chicken. The most infective organs were the muscles and the intestine and to a lesser extent, the brain and the thymus. This demonstrates the existence of an exo-intestinal form of the parasite in a non specific host. This form is infective for the specific host.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Brain / parasitology
  • Chickens
  • Coccidiosis / parasitology*
  • Eimeria / isolation & purification*
  • Intestines / parasitology*
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred BALB C
  • Muscles / parasitology
  • Organ Specificity
  • Thymus Gland / parasitology