understanding the distributions of poultry diseases will help planning for disease control and prevention more effectively. studies on poultry diseases in iran are scarce. we investigated the incidence of mortality in broiler chicken flocks in iran as part of a national project. specifically, documents from september 2004 to november 2005 related to the mortality of broilers that were covered b...

Avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC) causes colibacillosis, which is responsible for morbidity and mortality in chickens. Gene expression patterns have previously been demonstrated to differ between chicken populations that are resistant vs. susceptible to bacterial infection, but little is currently known about gene expression response to APEC. Increased understanding of gene expression pa...

BACKGROUND Locomotor disorders and infections by Escherichia coli represent major concerns to the poultry industry worldwide. Avian pathogenic E. coli (APEC) is associated with extraintestinal infections leading to respiratory or systemic disease known as colibacillosis. The most common lesions seen in cases of colibacillosis are perihepatitis, airsacculitis, pericarditis, peritonitis/salpingit...

in this study, 90 internal organ samples of poultry with symptoms of colibacillosis were obtained from maragheh poultry farms in east azerbaijan, iran. in total, 70 bacterial isolates were confirmed as escherichia coli (e. coli) strains using standard biochemical tests, and antibiotic sensitivity was determined by the disk diffusion method. antibiotics used in this study included ampicillin, pe...

Escherichia coli sequence type 117 (ST117) strains have been recovered from poultry with colibacillosis, as well as from urinary tract infections and fatal septic infections in humans. To further investigate ST117 isolates recovered from nonpoultry food animals, we sequenced the genomes of five ST117 isolates from dairy calves in Pennsylvania.

this study was designed to compare the efficacy of a phytobiotic containing a mixture of essential oils of oreganum aetheroleum and an antibiotic containing ciprofloxacin as an active principle for the treatment of experimental escherichia coli (e. coli) infection in broiler chickens. two-hundred-day-old broiler chickens were divided into 5 equal groups. the 1st group was neither challenged nor...