preliminary study on the incidence of eimeria infection in guinea fowl and trials to its control

The results revealed high incidence of E. grenieri in guinea fowl allover one year 66.3% and highest rate were winter especially in the newly hatched keets. The isolated E. Grenieri oocysts were identified according to morphobiological criteria. They were ovoid 21. 75 x 15. 50 um with uniformly thick wall and micropyle was present. The sporulation time was 20 hours. The sporocysts were pear-shaped containing comma shaped sporozoites. The polar granules were present while the oocyst residium was absent. The trial of treatment with Baycox and Esb3 were found effective

Biological and histopathological studies on eimeria grenieri in guinea fowl

The results revealed the life cycle of E. grenieri in guinea fowl, the patent period was approximately 15 days, the trophozoite was detected at 48 hours post infection in the duodenal epithelial cells, the second generation schizont were seen in 60-72 hours after infection in the lower region of the jujenal villi, the last schizont generation were distruibuted mainly in the ileum epithelial lining and the gamont cycts were found in the cecal epithelium after 120 hours post infection