Diagnosis and Management of Poultry Coccidiosis

Dr. John R. Barta is a Professor at Guelph University. His research focuses on better understanding the interactions that parasites of the phylum Apicomplexa (e.g., Plasmodium, Eimeria, Isopora, Toxoplasma gondii, Crytosporidium) have with host vertebrates. Dr. Barta’s main area of expertise is coccidiosis in chickens. Dr. Guillermo Téllez is a Research Professor at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. He obtained his DVM and MS from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and his PhD from Texas A & M University. He studies enteric health, and his research interests include the relationship of probiotics to nutrition and disease protection in poultry, as well as the design of avian enteric inflammation models to examine the impact of diet and microbiome on growth and development. Dr. Saeed El-Ashram is a Research Professor at Zhaoqing Duhuanong Biology Medicine Co., Ltd and Professor at both Kafrelsheikh University and Foshan University. He studies parasitic diseases, and his interests include parasitology, immunology, veterinary medicine, and next-generation sequencing. The primary goal of his research is to understand how the animal immune system recognizes and responds to parasitic infections with and/or without a microbial community. Dr. Luis Manuel Madeira de Carvalho is an Associate Professor of Animal Health at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Technical University of Lisbon (FVM/TUL). Dr. de Carvalho obtained his PhD from FVM/TUL, and his research interests include companion animal parasites, parasitic zoonoses, ruminant gastrointestinal parasites, and wildlife diseases. In addition to teaching Parasitology, Helminthology, Parasitic Diseases, and Wildlife Diseases, Dr. de Carvalho in a researcher at the Interdisciplinary Research Center on Animal Health (CIISA/FVM/TUL). Dr. Abdulaziz Alouffi is an Associate Research Professor at KACST in Saudi Arabia. He obtained his DVM from Qassim University and his PhD from the University of Nottingham. His research interests include diagnosis of zoonotic diseases, parasite identification, and vaccine targeting. Dr. Danielle Graham is an Assistant Professor at Fayetteville State University. She obtained her PhD from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. Her research focuses on avian intestinal health and parasitology.

1. Coccidiosis 2. Population, genetic, and antigenic diversity of Eimeria 3. Eimeria parasite: Identification and diagnosis 4. Phylogenetic relationships among Eimeria spp. (Apicomplexa, Eimeriidae) 5. Coccidiosis in Chickens: Prevalence and Risk Factors 6. Coinfection 7. Purification of Eimeria life cycle stages 8. In vitro culture systems for the study of Eimeria 9. Innate immune response to Eimeria 10. Adaptive immune response to Eimeria 11. Anticoccidial drugs 12. Examining the genetics of Eimeria resistance 13. Anticoccidial live vaccines 14. Recombinant subunit vaccines 15. Nanotechnology for poultry coccidiosis control 16. Genetic manipulation of Eimiria 17. Possible ways to control chicken coccidiosis with transgenic Eimeria parasites 18. Nutritional supplements 19. Prebiotics, probiotics, biobiotics, and synbiotics 20. Phytogenics feed additives (phytobiotics or botanicals) 21. Eimeria infection and gut microbiota 22. Environmental control of coccidiosis in poultry