Necrotic Enteritis in Chickens Associated with Clostridium sordellii

Avian Diseases

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 447-451

  Rimoldi, Guillermo ^a   Uzal, Francisco ^a   Chin, R P ^a   Palombo, Enzo A ^b   Awad, Milena ^c   Lyras, Dena ^c   Shivaprasad, H L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

chicken; Clostridium perfringens; Clostridium sordellii; necrotic enteritis; poultry

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIRD DISEASE; CHICKEN; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTION; CLOSTRIDIUM SORDELLII; ENTERITIS; EPIDEMIC; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CLOSTRIDIUM SORDELLII; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENTERITIS; POULTRY DISEASES;

EID: 84940759557     PISSN: 00052086     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1637/11077-033115-Case.1     Document Type: Article

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