Clinico-haematological changes in Heterakis gallinarum infection in chicken
Abstract
Clinical and haematological changes were observed in birds experimentally infected with Heterakis gallinarum. One-month old chicks infected with H. gallinarum eggs showed symptoms of emaciation, wasting, ruffled feathers, unthriftiness, diarrhoea on 6th, 7th, 8th week of infection. Haematological parameters revealed a decrease in haemoglobin, total erythrocyte count, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, packed cell volume with an increased total leucocyte, lymphocyte and eosinophilic counts in experimentally infected birds.
Keywords
Chicken, Heterakis gallinarum, Clinical signs, Haematology
