Preliminary study: Health and performance assessment in broiler chicks following application of six different hatching egg disinfection protocols

• Wiebke Tebrün,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Clinic of Birds, Small Mammals, Reptiles and Ornamental Fish, Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Oberschleißheim, Germany

  Affiliation University Teaching Hospital, Department for Birds and Reptiles, University of Leipzig, An den Tierkliniken, Leipzig, Germany

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• Gerzon Motola,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Poultry Diseases, Freie Universität Berlin, Königsweg, Berlin, Germany

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• Mohamed Hafez Hafez,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Poultry Diseases, Freie Universität Berlin, Königsweg, Berlin, Germany

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• Josef Bachmeier,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Brüterei Süd, Regenstauf, Germany

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• Volker Schmidt,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University Teaching Hospital, Department for Birds and Reptiles, University of Leipzig, An den Tierkliniken, Leipzig, Germany

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• Kevin Renfert,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Tierärztliche Klinik in Schwerin, Schwerin, Germany

  Affiliation University Teaching Hospital, Department for Birds and Reptiles, University of Leipzig, An den Tierkliniken, Leipzig, Germany

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• Christian Reichelt,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University Teaching Hospital, Department for Birds and Reptiles, University of Leipzig, An den Tierkliniken, Leipzig, Germany

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• Sarah Brüggemann-Schwarze,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Poultry Diseases, Freie Universität Berlin, Königsweg, Berlin, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2774-1645

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• Michael Pees

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: pees@vogelklinik.uni-leipzig.de

  Affiliation University Teaching Hospital, Department for Birds and Reptiles, University of Leipzig, An den Tierkliniken, Leipzig, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7244-9697

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