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1 January 2003 Origins of Coccidiosis Research in the Fowl—The First Fifty Years
H. David Chapman
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Abstract

In 1910, H. B. Fantham described the life cycle of a coccidian parasite in birds. Fantham was a parasitologist at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom working for an enquiry into diseases affecting the red grouse. Despite the growing importance of the poultry industry and the realization that coccidiosis was an important disease of the fowl, little further work was carried out in the United Kingdom until coccidiosis research was initiated at the Veterinary Laboratory, Weybridge almost 30 yr later. Further progress depended upon research carried out at academic and agricultural institutions in the United States. E. E. Tyzzer at Harvard University provided the solid foundation upon which our present knowledge of coccidiosis, and the species of Eimeria involved in the disease, is based. Agricultural experiment stations (AESs) throughout the nation played an important role in communicating advances to the agricultural community. W. T. Johnson at Western Washington and, subsequently, Oregon AES made significant contributions to our understanding of the disease, as did C. A. Herrick and coworkers at Wisconsin AES, J. P. Delaplane and coworkers at Rhode Island AES, and P. P. Levine at Cornell University.

Abbreviation: AES = agricultural experiment station

H. David Chapman "Origins of Coccidiosis Research in the Fowl—The First Fifty Years," Avian Diseases 47(1), 1-20, (1 January 2003). https://doi.org/10.1637/0005-2086(2003)047[0001:OOCRIT]2.0.CO;2
Received: 18 June 2002; Published: 1 January 2003
KEYWORDS
agricultural experiment station
avian disease
coccidiosis
Eimeria
history
poultry
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