Effects of Vitamin – Mineral Supplement on the Immune Response of Broilers to Newcastle Disease Vaccination
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https://doi.org/10.18819/ijavs.2015.1542Keywords:
Immune Response, Newcastle Disease Vaccination, Vitamin-Mineral SupplementationAbstract
To study effects of vitamins-minerals (VMS) supplementation on immune response of chicks to Newcastle disease vaccination (NDV- LaSota), one hundred broiler chicks were assigned to 4 treatment groups of 25 each. One group was given VMS before the vaccination. Another group was given the supplementation after the vaccination. A third group was given the VMS before and after the vaccination while the fourth group served as vaccinated control. Administration of VMS was in each case, through drinking water. Five randomly selected chicks from each group were bled for sera, used for haemagglutination inhibition (HI)-NDV antibodies test. Three weeks post vaccination, mean NDV antibody titre (1.87±0.18) in chicks given VMS before and after the vaccination was significantly (P < 0.05) higher than 1.39±0.12 of the control but it did not vary (P > 0.05) from 1.81±0.17 and 1.74±0.06, respectively of groups that received the supplementation only before and only after vaccination.
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