Table 5.

Effect of a putative biliogenic diet on mortality and lesions related to histomoniasis.^1,2

Treatment	Mortality	Liver lesions	Cecal lesions
Positive-challenged control	6/20	15/20	16/20
Biliogenic diet3	7/20	16/19	18/19

¹Post-challenge cumulative mortality and classical lesions associated with histomoniasis from day 6 post-challenge until day 13 experiment termination. Lesions were determined based on the presence or absence of classic histomoniasis characterized by target-like liver lesions and cecal cores. No lesions or mortalities as a result of histomoniasis occurred within the non-challenged control group (0/59).

²Statistical evaluation used the chi-square test and Fisher's exact test with significance at P ≤ 0.05. No significant differences in mortalities or lesions were observed.

³The biliogenic diet was formulated with 20% whole egg powder. One poult was excluded from the lesion data set for the biliogenic diet group due to tabulation error.