Development of a Potent Anti-coccidial Drug: A Phyto-Synthetic Approach

Coccidiosis is a well-known parasitic disease causing major economic problem in the poultry industry and responsible for several deaths of poultry and loses to poultry farmers all over the world. Despite several progresses aimed at the mitigation of this disease through formulation of synthetic drugs and phyto-medicine, the scourge of the disease is still recorded in different farms and at an uncontrollable state. Although different mode of its transmission has been recorded and lots of potent drugs formulated, identifying the specific survival strategy of the parasites and the quest to develop a portent drug that could completely kill the parasites still remains an enigma. Here, we report an extraordinary case where we conducted a study through the addition of garlic to synthetic drugs to test the efficacy of the anti-coccidial effect of graded concentrations of garlic powder (GP) in combination with amprolium on faecal oocysts counts of coccidia and measured weight gain in broiler chickens post treatment.