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Purified β-glucan as an abiotic feed additive up-regulates the innate immune response in immature chickens against Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis by Lowry, V.K., Farnell, M.B., Ferro, P.J., Swaggerty, C.L., Bahl, A., Kogut, M.H.

“…Functionally, the innate immune system of immature chickens is inefficient during the first week posthatch. This immunological inefficiency enables pathogens…”
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Trypanosoma cruzi Genotype I and Toxoplasma gondii Co-infection in a Red-Necked Wallaby by Díaz-Delgado, J., Kellerman, T.E., Auckland, L., Ferro, P.J., Groch, K.R., Gomez, G., Hamer, S.A.

“…While the health effects of trypanosomes in Australian mammals in their native range are not fully understood, there is evidence of an impact in those species…”
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J Wildl Dis: Avian influenza surveillance in hunter-harvested waterfowl from the Gulf Coast of Texas by Ferro, P.J, El-Attrache, J, Fang, X

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Heterophils are associated with resistance to systemic Salmonella enteritidis infections in genetically distinct chicken lines by Swaggerty, Christina L., Ferro, Pamela J., Pevzner, Igal Y., Kogut, Michael H.

“…Heterophils mediate acute protection against Salmonella in young poultry. We evaluated susceptibility of genetically distinct lines of broilers to systemic…”
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Association between in vitro heterophil function and the feathering gene in commercial broiler chickens by Swaggerty, C.L, Pevzner, I.Y, Ferro, P.J, Crippen, T.L, Kogut, M.H

“…We recently showed that in vitro heterophil functional efficiency in commercial broiler chickens is genetically controlled and may be a sex-associated trait…”
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Disparity in susceptibility to vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus organ invasion in commercial broiler chickens that differ in innate immune responsiveness by Swaggerty, C.L, Lowry, V.K, Ferro, P.J, Pevzner, I.Y, Kogut, M.H

“…Enterococci, gram-positive bacterium, are found on virtually all consumer-ready retail meats. Recently, we characterized the innate immune response phenotype…”
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