Filip Van Immerseel

TL;DR: The incidence of Clostridium perfringens-associated necrotic enteritis in poultry has increased in countries that stopped using antibiotic growth promoters and the use of probiotic and prebiotic products has been suggested, but are not available for practical use in the field at the present time.

TL;DR: Recent research is creating a paradigm shift in the understanding of the pathogenesis of necrotic enteritis of chickens and is now providing information that will be necessary to monitor and control the incidence of NE in poultry.

TL;DR: It was concluded that oral inoculation of broilers with an overdose of live coccidial vaccine in combination with multiple oral C. perfringens inoculations is a suitable model for necrotic enteritis without inducing mortality of the animals.

TL;DR: This study provides further evidence that NetB is important in pathogenesis and advances the current understanding of C. perfringens virulence factors in avian necrotic enteritis.

TL;DR: In this article, C. perfringens was evaluated for the ability to cause gut necrosis in an intestinal loop model in laying hens and in an experimental infection model in broilers.