Table 3 Effect of yeast-cell-wall (YCW) diet on IgA production in mucosa and humoral immune responses to Newcastle disease virus (NDV) in neonatal chickens

Diet

Control

622 ± 99.70^b

83.61 ± 12.5^b

3.11 ± 0.16^b

5.55 ± 0.08^b

YCW

1281 ± 152.1^a

169.70 ± 13.2^a

3.86 ± 0.05^a

7.71 ± 0.09^a

Anticoccidial program

Coccidiostat

450 ± 55.40^b

145.55 ± 33.8

4.28 ± 0.58

6.57 ± 0.12

Vaccine

585 ± 143.2^a

107.76 ± 20.2

4.07 ± 0.17

7.15 ± 0.09

Variation source

Probability

Diet

0.009

0.011

0.015

0.005

Anticoccidial program

0.006

0.224

0.187

0.209

Sample size per group

10

10

35

35