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Clostridium fallax infection in poultry

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A disease causing high mortality in young chickens following listlessness, inappetence and diarrhoea is described from Malawi. Haemorrhagic enteritis, splenic enlargement and congestion with petechial haemorrhages, and subcutaneous oedema were seen at post mortem.Clostridium fallax was isolated from affected birds. Coccidiosis was a possible predisposing factor.

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  1. Veterinary Research Laboratory, Blantyre, Malawi

    D. C. Ellwood & R. W. Halliwell

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Ellwood, D.C., Halliwell, R.W. Clostridium fallax infection in poultry. Trop Anim Health Prod 5, 202–204 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02251392

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