Anticoccidial drug resistance in fowl coccidia: the state of play revisited

The development of drug resistance in the Eimeria strains is very common because of extensive use of anticoccidial drugs for the control of avian coccidiosis.   The significance of chemotherapy is evident from the fact that, in spite of advancement in the field of immunological, biotechnological and genetic methods, prophylactic chemotherapy with anticoccidial drugs is still widely used for the control of coccidiosis. In such situations, new drugs should be available to replace the older ones a