High stocking density as a predisposing factor for necrotic enteritis in broiler chicks

Avian Pathology

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 59-66

  Tsiouris, V ^a   Georgopoulou, I ^a   Batzios, C ^a   Pappaioannou, N ^a   Ducatelle, R ^b   Fortomaris, P ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS;

BACTERIAL VACCINE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CHICKEN; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CROWDING (AREA); ENTERITIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INTESTINE; LIVER; MICROBIOLOGY; NECROSIS; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PH; POULTRY DISEASES; PROCEDURES; VETERINARY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL VACCINES; CAUSALITY; CHICKENS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CROWDING; ENTERITIS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INTESTINES; LIVER; NECROSIS; POULTRY DISEASES;

EID: 84924366662     PISSN: 03079457     EISSN: 14653338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03079457.2014.1000820     Document Type: Article

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