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US Poultry & Egg Association

Multi-strain bacterin vaccine demonstrates broad protection against spotty liver disease

Recently, Campylobacter hepaticus was identified as the causative agent for chicken spotty liver disease (SLD), an illness which manifests as acute infectious hepatitis and causes a significant drop in egg production and high mortality in layer chickens. Researchers from Iowa State University, led by Orhan Sahin, DVM, PhD, are studying Campylobacter bacterins in the control of SLD.

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Forty years on the frontlines: A poultry pathologist’s perspective on the past, present and future of coccidiosis control

Coccidiosis guru Steve Fitz-Coy, PhD, started his career in the early 1980s. Some 40 years later, coccidiosis continues to be one of the most common and costly diseases of poultry worldwide. And Fitz-Coy, a poultry scientist at Merck for the past 24 years, is still the go-to guy when an outbreak is suspected.

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