Mitigate necrotic enteritis in broilers with butyrate

Aiming to test non-antibiotic alternative strategies to counter the negative consequences of necrotic enteritis (NE), a research group at the University of Cairo set up experiments to evaluate the effects of butyrate in NE-challenged broilers. Necrotic enteritis (NE) is an important enteric disease in poultry, caused by the overgrowth of certain Clostridium perfringens strains, which evokes intestinal tissue damage. In its acute clinical form, the disease is characterised by a sudden increase i