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Optimal treatment of Ascaridia galli-infected chickens with salts of trace elements and a kinetic model for chicken growth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2024

S.E. Teodorova  and
M. Gabrashanska
S.E. Teodorova*
Affiliation:
Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 72, Tzarigradsko shaussee, 1784 Sofia, Bulgaria
M. Gabrashanska
Affiliation:
Institute for Experimental Pathology and Parasitology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. G. Bonchev str., bl. 25, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
*
*Fax: +359 2 975 3619 Email: seteodor@inrne.bas.bg
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Data from seven experiments with Ascaridia galli-infected chickens have been considered. The results of treatment with neutral and basic copper, zinc and copper–zinc salts and inorganic and organic manganese compounds have been compared. An optimal therapy, containing a pure Cu basic salt (Cu2(OH)3Cl) and an organic Mn compound (2Gly.MnCl2.2H2O), is proposed to correct mineral deficiencies and pathological symptoms and to ensure lower mortality and higher gains in body weight. A mathematical model has been proposed for the growth of a healthy chicken. The relative rates for two growth stages have been determined by the model using data from mean chicken weights. The time course of the average biomass of a single A. galli has been theoretically derived from the same logistic equation describing chicken growth, which in turn might explain, phenomenologically, the mechanisms involved in the biomass growth of eukaryote organisms.

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Review Article
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Journal of Helminthology , Volume 76 , Issue 1 , March 2002 , pp. 79 - 85
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2002

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