Special Issue "The Relationship between Dietary Factors and Bacterial, Parasitic, or Fungal Challenges in Modern Poultry Production"

A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Poultry".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2022.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Anna Arczewska-Włosek
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Guest Editor
Department of Animal Nutrition and Feed Science, National Research Institute of Animal Production, 32-083 Balice, Poland
Interests: poultry nutrition; feed additives; feed materials; alternatives to antimicrobials; growth performance; nutrition and physiology; health status; animal product quality; poultry coccidiosis
Prof. Dr. Sylwester ÅšwiÄ…tkiewicz
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Guest Editor
Department of Animal Nutrition and Feed Science, National Research Institute of Animal Production, 32-083 Balice, Poland
Interests: poultry nutrition; nutrition and physiology; nutrition and immunity; evaluation of feed materials and additives; minerals; egg quality; poultry meat quality

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The nutrient requirements and recommendations for every type of poultry production are usually adjusted for the physiological conditions. However, in every rearing system, modern poultry production faces challenges directly influencing gastrointestinal homeostasis, such as bacterial, parasitic, or fungal infections. As a result of the challenge, the pathological process may result in the shift of requirements and/or the disturbance of gastrointestinal functionality, inferior immune response, poorer performance, and negatively affected welfare and health status of birds.

The goal of this Special Issue is to give an up-to-date overview of the progress in current poultry research regarding the role of dietary factors in gastrointestinal homeostasis, and how it can contribute to maintaining satisfactory immune response, welfare, growth performance, and safe products (meat, eggs) with high quality, during a pathological process, or as a prophylaxis approach.

Areas of special interest include the interactions between diet formulations regarding the levels of different nutrients, various feed materials and feed additives, as well as their quality—especially (but not only) under the conditions of the experimentally controlled challenge. Challenge studies are models that mimic the infections present in production conditions while meeting all requirements that allow the performance of a reliable scientific evaluation.

Dr. Anna Arczewska-Włosek
Prof. Dr. Sylwester ÅšwiÄ…tkiewicz
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Keywords

  • poultry nutrition
  • challenge model
  • gut health
  • growth performance
  • antibiotic alternatives
  • feed additives
  • dietary nutrients content
  • immune response
  • meat and egg quality
  • coccidiosis
  • necrotic enteritis
  • dysbacteriosis

Published Papers

This special issue is now open for submission.
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