Surya Paudel

Escherichia coli resides as a gut commensal in healthy chickens but also causes the extraintestinal disease called colibacillosis. Pathotype definition is primarily based on the clinical condition of the host, but it is still not definite due to the lack of genetic traits to differentiate between commensal and harmful isolates, which has led to divided views with regard to the pathogenicity of E. ...

Histomonas meleagridis and Escherichia coli exhibit an outstanding interplay in vitro and are well recognized pathogens in poultry causing histomonosis and colibacillosis, respectively. H. meleagridis and E. coli reside in the intestine of birds, thus, to understand their interaction in vivo, gut microbial changes and caecal wall penetration of E. coli were investigated separately in experimentall ...