Histopathological Study on Necrotic Enteritis Disease in broiler chickens.

Abstract

Histopathological Study on Necrotic Enteritis Disease in broiler chickens.A. R.A AlaqabyColl. of Vet.Med. /Unive. of Al-QadisyiaAbstractThis study was conducted to investigate the incidence of necrotic enteritis disease in broiler chicks in some of poultry houses of broiler chicken in Al-Diwaniyah, which have a high mortality rate, by relying on clinical signs ,gross pathological lesions and histological changes for intestine, liver and spleen.The most important clinical signs in these chickens were inactivity and lack of movement and diarrhea, with cases of mortality in well-fleshed birds.The samples were collected from these chickens, small intestine, liver and spleen, in which macroscopic pathological lesions were noticed.The intestine was full or distended with gases and reindeer velvet surface, with congestion of liver and spleen. When histological films were make for this organs , the histological changes recorded in the wall of intestine infected birds were areas of necrosis with a degenerative cells in that region, also there was hemorrhage in the liver and in the spleen.