The administration of an antihistomonal drug, dimetridazole, at a dose of 0.08% in feed, controlled experimental infections with Histomonas meleagridis in chickens. The treated birds developed no lesions and the duration of infection with H. meleagridis was reduced. This drug regimen, however, did not always prevent incorporation of H. meleagridis into eggs of Heterakis gallinarium; heterakid eggs pooled from medicated chickens in which H. meleagridis had never been detected transmitted the protozoan to 1 of 10 turkeys fed the eggs. Thus, therapeutic treatment of chickens with dimetridazole may reduce, but not eliminate, transmission of H. meleagridis by eggs of H. gallinarum from medicated birds.
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