Eimeria

Eimeria

Taxobox
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image_width = 210px
image_caption = "Eimeria Maxima" oocysts
name = "Eimeria"
regnum = Protista
phylum = Apicomplexa
classis = Conoidasida
ordo = Eucoccidiorida
familia = Eimeriidae
genus = "Eimeria"
genus_authority = Schneider, 1875
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "Eimeria acervulina"
"Eimeria ahsata"
"Eimeria bovis"
"Eimeria brunetti"
"Eimeria fraterculae"
"Eimeria maxima"
"Eimeria meleagridis"
"Eimeria mitis"
"Eimeria necatrix"
"Eimeria praecox"
"Eimeria stiedae"
"Eimeria tenella"
"Eimeria zurnii"
etc.

"Eimeria" is a genus of Apicomplexan parasites that includes various species responsible for the poultry disease coccidiosis. Medications are available for the parasite; however, drug resistance is common as well as possible drug residues in the meat once the animal is butchered. Vaccines have been developed but one vaccine will only cover one species and not others. So far the best practice is to vaccinate the chicks once they hatch from the egg so they are immune for life. Symptoms of "Eimeria" infection include bloody diarrhea due to intestinal epithelium dying off since a large number of oocysts and merozoites burst out of the cells. Necrotic tissue clogs the cecum causing the organ to die.


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