The poultry industry loses up to $6 billion annually due to necrotic enteritis, a preventable intestinal disease in poultry, including broiler chickens. An Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station ...

By having multiple epitopes in one molecule, MEFA vaccines can simultaneously target several features of the disease-causing pathogen, known as virulence points. Sun said this theoretically makes the ...

Research is being conducted to evaluate a new solution using a vaccine to prevent an intestinal disease in poultry that costs ...

Sun intends to develop a multiepitope fusion antigen, or MEFA, vaccine to target necrotic enteritis, which affects the intestinal system of broiler chickens. MEFA vaccines are able to trigger a ...