influence of antibiotics on B-cell number, percentage, and distribution in the bursa of Fabricius of newly hatched chicks

Antibiotics are commonly used to prevent and treat poultry microbial infections, but certain antibiotic families depress humoral immunity, such as antibody production. Poultry humoral immunity depends on the normal functioning of the bursa of Fabricius and the B lymphocytes that mature in that gland...

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