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UNDER natural conditions infection with coccidia occurs as a result of the ingestion of viable sporulated oocysts, and this method of infection, that is, the inoculation of oocysts per os, is used experimentally to establish coccidia in laboratory animals.
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DAVIES, S., JOYNER, L. Infection of the Fowl by the Parenteral Inoculation of Oocysts of Eimeria. Nature 194, 996–997 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/194996a0
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