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Abstract
1- INTRODUCTION
Rabbit industry is one of the small livestock has a unique
commercial that can play a role in solving the shortage in meat after
poultry industry. Rabbits have high potential for providing a high
quantity of meat compared with other farm animals. Rabbit meat
provides a good source meat which is characterized by high protein and
low fat cholesterol contents with low cost (Fayeye, 2013).
Rabbits and other animals are exposed to several infection
(bacterial, viral, parasitic and mycotic) and non-infection (toxins and
stress, genetic and metabolic) agents resulting in various disease
problems and economic loss (Ghanem and Ismail, 1992; Eid and
Ibraheem, 2006). The death losses during weaning in industrial rabbits
are very high compared with other animals. There are many diseases
affecting young rabbits (pre and post weaning age). Enteritis is one of
the major problems that rabbits face in Egypt, causing high mortality.
Enteritis in rabbits may be caused by parasitic and bacterial organism
and they are the widely recorded in Egypt. Clostridium species,
Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, and Salmonella species
usually were isolated from young rabbits (Eid and Ibraheem, 2006).
In the early weaning period, bacterial isolates were more common than
in the suckling period, although may be present in adults. This can be
due to weaning stress and dietary changes leading to increase ceacal PH
(Shahin et al., 2011).
Aflatoxins (B1, B2, G1 and G2) are a group of toxic compounds
produced by the toxigenic strains of Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus
parasiticus. Such fungi can be grown on a wide variety of food
commodities (Wilson and Payne, 1993