NECROTIC ENTERITIS AMONG COMMERCIAL BROILERS IN WEST BENGAL

摘要

Clostridium perfringens is recognized as enteric pathogens in humans, domestic animals and wildlife world wide (Songer, 1996). Necrotic enteritis (NE), a disease of poultry caused by this organism, leads to the development of necrotic lesion in the gut wall as well as increased mortality. NE in domestic chicken was first described by Parish in 1961. In poultry this disease is also known as 'rot gut' or 'clostridial enteritis' or 'cauliflower gut'. Clostridial infection, which was thought to be not so common in poultry earlier, has now been causing both visible and invisible economic loss through mortality, morbidity, weight loss, and poor performance.