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GM
Corn To Fight Poultry Disease In Brazil
Researchers
at Campinas State University in Sao Paulo, Brazil plan to create
genetically modified (GM) corn that will be effective in fighting
coccidiosis, a poultry disease caused by parasitic protozoa. Adilson
Leite and colleagues have identified a virus that can infect and
destroy the species of protozoa that cause the disease. The group
will extract proteins from the virus and insert them into corn thus
making the GM corn effective against the virulent effects of the
protozoa that invade the intestinal cells of chickens. Leite says
corn represents 70 percent of the poultry diet. According to the
article, known species of the parasitic protozoa are becoming
increasingly resistant to the existing medicines used to fight
coccidiosis, a disease that causes U.S.$20 million in annual losses
to Brazilian farmers. The Campinas researchers have filed a patent
for the technique in Brazil and in the U.S.
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