Dietary supplementation of mannan-oligosaccharide enhances neonatal immune responses in chickens during natural exposure to Eimeria spp

Table 4 Effect of yeast-cell-wall (YCW) diet on cell-mediated immune responses and fecal excretion of coccidia oocysts in neonatal chickens

	Basophilic hypersensitivity (mm²)	Oocyst in feces (cells/g)
Diet
Control	0.56 ± 0.08^a	32805 ± 572.80^a
YCW	0.82 ± 0.09^b	6505 ± 128.06^b
Anticoccidial program
Coccidiostat	0.67 ± 0.12	2810 ± 2454.36^b
Vaccine	0.71 ± 0.09	36500 ± 2308.66^a
Variation source	Probability
Diet	0.012	0.001
Anticoccidial program	0.682	0.001
Sample size per group	35	10

For details see legend in Table 1. Values in the same column with different superscripts (within factors) are statistically significant. Mean + SEM. P-values < 0.05 were considered statistically significant.

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