Efficacy of hydrated sodium calcium aluminosilicate in ameliorating ochratoxicosis in broiler chickens
Published: July 26, 2019
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INTRODUCTION The worldwide occurrence of mycotoxins producing fungi and their ability to grow on the variety of economical important cereal crops have rendered them as unavoidable contaminants of human and animal food and feeds. The family of ochratoxins consists of three members known as ochratoxin A, ochratoxin B and ochratoxin C among these ochratoxin A (OTA) is the most toxic one. They are...
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Adisseo
5 de septiembre de 2019
Dear authors,
I wonder if you also measured other mycotoxins, especially aflatoxins. The reaction of birds, in my opinion, was more related to symptoms of aflatoxicosis rather than ochratoxicosis. Also the level of ochratoxin A looks not really high to cause significant impact on the performance as well as on some organs.
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5 de septiembre de 2019
Aflatoxins were also estimated, the feed was free from aflatoxins. The objective of the investigation was to induce ochratoxicosis.
Dr. Ram Singh Bibyan
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