Managing the intestinal carriage of APEC

Avian colibacillosis ranks as one of the most commonly encountered bacterial diseases in poultry worldwide and leads to considerable economic losses. Therefore, Wisium is investigating solutions to reduce APEC intestinal carriage. Avian colibacillosis, an exclusively extra-intestinal disease is caused by a subgroup of pathogenic E. coli called Avian Pathogenic E. coli (APEC). APEC strains possess a variety of virulence factors that confer them the ability to survive and proliferate in the host