association of toxin-producing fungi with disease in broilers. | an episode of suboptimal growth, poor feathering and behavioural abnormalities in broilers in scotland during the winter of 1980-81 is described. this was considered to be associated with mould-contaminated maize and wheat components of the feed, from which fusaria were isolated in persistently high numbers. four species, fusarium culmorum, f tricinctum, f nivale and f moniliforme, were identified. chloroform extracts of the raw materials and of an artificial medium in which three of the fusariu ... | 1982 | 6217625 |