Mycotoxins in Dairy Feed and its Harmful Impact on Animal Health: Diagnostic Aids and Treatment: A Big Animal Health Challenge (original) (raw)

Open Access Research Journal of Chemistry and Pharmacy, 2022

Abstract

Monitoring the certain health conditions and properly identifying the diseases are the most 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 until now. 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 Aspergillus parasiticus, commonly found in corn, milo, cottonseed and peanuts, while its concentrations in grains is very enough to cause acute aflatoxicosis. The five important aflato...

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