Department of Livestock & Dairy Development Quetta Balochistan, Pakistan
Review Article
Mycotoxins in Dairy Feed and Its Harmful Impact on Animal Health : Diagnostic Aids and Treatment : A Big Animal Health Challenge
Author(s): Habib-Ur-Rehman*, Niamaullah Kakar, Asmatullah Kakar, Muneer ahmed, Saeed ur Rehman, Siraj Ahmed Kakar and Daud Khan
Background
Monitoring the certain health conditions and properly identifying the diseases are the important steps in getting the high productions from dairy cattle. Mycotoxins are chemicals produced by fungi (molds) under certain conditions, not essential for fungal itself growth or reproduction, having toxic affects to animals and humans. More than 250 mycotoxins have been detected. For many toxins, their toxicological characteristics have not been fully determined uptil now.
Introduction
There are many kinds of mycotoxins, causing different kinds of mycotoxicoses. Mycotoxins enter into the body, usually by consumption of contaminated feed, do acts on cells causing the mycotoxicoses. Mycotoxicoses are not contagious, nor is there significant stimulation of the immune system. Aflatoxin produced by Aspergillus flavus and A.. View More»
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