THE ROLE OF ENVIRONMENT IN THE OCCURRENCE OF CLOSTRIDIAL INFECTION AMONG FOWL.

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Abstract

Necrotic entritis was consistently produced when fowl fed ration cont
perfringens. Microbiological examination of aminated with clostridium 50 dead birds with a history of necrotic enteritis revealed the recovery
of 46 liver, 30 spleen, 44 intistine
a sum of clostridium perfringens from
the and 42 intistinal contents. The organism was also recovered from ration consumed by birds (concentrates) as well as from litter, water and droppings.
Contaminated ration was found to be the main source of infection and litier producing another focus of infection.