It is generally agreed that good gut health is effective against intestinal pathogens and is the cornerstone to competitive poultry production, especially in broilers, where treating intestinal borne pathogens is too time consuming to be considered cost-effective.

Also called Porcine Proliferative Enteropathy (PPE), ileitis is an infectious enteric disease. Its prevalence has getting very high in Europe and in Asia, reaching over 90% of the farms. The disease is characterized by thickening of the mucosa of the intestine due to hyperplasia of the crypt enterocytes and happens wit ...