BELTSVILLE, Md. — Identifying antimicrobial proteins in chickens that kill pathogens is one method being used by USDA scientists to find alternatives to the use of antibiotics to control infectious poultry diseases.
Each year, poultry diseases such as coccidiosis cause losses of more than $600 million in the U.S. and $3.2 billion worldwide.
Molecular biologist Hyun Lillehoj, at the Agricultural Research Service Henry A. Wallace Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC) in Beltsville, Md., has dedicated her career to discovering how to produce poultry without using drugs. Her research includes enhancing innate immunity through genetics, and examining molecules produced by. . .
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