Necrotic enteritis poses a major threat to the current objective of ‘antibiotic-free’ poultry farming. It causes economic loss due to high mortality in broilers and, most commonly, it causes a chronic sub-clinical intestinal mucosal damage, leading to reduced feed efficiency and growth reduction. There is no vaccine in the market for necrotic enteritis....

Diseases caused by enteric bacterial pathogens are a major problem worldwide. They are estimated to cause over 2 million deaths each year. Many of these pathogens are carried by animals reared for food, such as poultry and swine. The bacteria can also be transmitted to humans by contaminated food and water. In developing countries, bacterial enteropathogens...