Spotlight on avian pathology: Untangling contradictory disease descriptions of necrotic enteritis and necro-haemorrhagic enteritis in broilers.

Spotlight on avian pathology: Untangling contradictory disease descriptions of necrotic enteritis and necro-haemorrhagic enteritis in broilers. Avian Pathol. 2020 Mar 25;:1-13 Authors: Goossens E, Dierick E, Ducatelle R, Van Immerseel F Abstract Necrotic enteritis (NE) is one of the most detrimental infectious diseases in modern poultry industry, characterized by necrosis in the small intestine. It is commonly accepted that NetB-producing C. perfringens type G strains are responsible for the disease. However, based on both macroscopic and histopathological observations, two distinct types of NE are observed. To date, both a haemorrhagic form of NE and the type G associated non-haemorrhagic disease entity are commonly referred to as NE and results from scientific research are interchangeably used, without distinguishing between the disease entities. Therefore, we propose to rename the haemorrhagic disease entity to necro-haemorrhagic enteritis. PMID: 32208870 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Avian Pathology - Category: Pathology Authors: Tags: Avian Pathol Source Type: research