Revathi Shanmugasundaram

1. IntroductionBroiler chicken diets primarily consist of cereals, which are often contaminated with multiple mycotoxins [1]. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), above 25% of the global food crops are contaminated with mycotoxins [2], causing a USD 5 billion annual economic loss for North America [3]. The fungi Fusarium verticillioides and Fusarium proliferatum are promi ...

Author details:1 Department of Poultry Science, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 3060, USA; 2 Toxicology and Mycotoxin Research Unit, US National Poultry Research Center, Athens, GA 30605, USA; 3 Department of Animal and Dairy Science, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA.1. IntroductionC. jejuni is the leading cause of gastrointestinal disease in the United States [1,2]. The fina ...

1 IntroductionAmino acids are organic compounds containing both amino (—NH2) and carboxyl (—COOH) groups. Due to the presence of asymmetric carbon, all amino acids except glycine exhibit optical activity and exist as D- and L-isoforms or enantiomers (Lehninger et al., 2005). The asymmetric α-carbon imparts chirality, a phenomenon where the molecule is not superimposable to its mi ...

INTRODUCTIONCorn is one of the major components of poultry feed, and up to 65% of finished poultry feed can be comprised of corn and corn byproducts (Alqaisi et al., 2017). Poultry diets are often contaminated with more than one mycotoxin. Fumonisins (FB) and deoxynivalenol (DON) are secondary mycotoxin metabolites produced by Fusarium verticillioides and Fusarium graminearum, respectively (Glenn, ...