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. 2009 Mar 19;51(1):11. doi: 10.1186/1751-0147-51-11

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

Intestinal IgA (ng/ml) Tracheal IgA (ng/ml) Antibody titers* against NDV
17 days 		Antibody titers against NDV
24 days
Diet
Control 622 ± 99.70b 83.61 ± 12.5b 3.11 ± 0.16b 5.55 ± 0.08b
YCW 1281 ± 152.1a 169.70 ± 13.2a 3.86 ± 0.05a 7.71 ± 0.09a
Anticoccidial program
Coccidiostat 450 ± 55.40b 145.55 ± 33.8 4.28 ± 0.58 6.57 ± 0.12
Vaccine 585 ± 143.2a 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

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. *Log2.