eight intramuscular injections of 200 mg/kg of iron ( dfe ) , given as iron dextran twice weekly in the week before and the three weeks after intravenous infection with about 10 ( 7.5 ) colony-forming units of mycobacterium avium , significantly prolonged ( by about 11 days ) the mean 'time-to-death ' of immature male fowl ( gallus domesticus ) compared with corresponding regimes using dextran ( dx ) only or saline , when a proportion of the birds were examined 21 days after infection many of the abnormalities associated with the disease , including a marked hypochromic anaemia , were less severe in dfe-treated than in the dx- or saline-treated chicks and there were about 10- to 85-fold fewer viable tubercle bacilli in the liver and spleen of the dfe-treated birds .
C0302583
iron
C0022092
iron dextran