Clostridium perfringens chitinases, key enzymes during early stages of necrotic enteritis in broiler chickens

• Evelien Dierick,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Livestock Gut Health Team (LiGHT) Ghent, Department of Pathobiology, Pharmacology and Zoological Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9180-8632

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• Chana Callens,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Livestock Gut Health Team (LiGHT) Ghent, Department of Pathobiology, Pharmacology and Zoological Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

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• Yehudi Bloch,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Unit for Structural Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, Unit for Structural Biology, VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research, Ghent, Belgium, Current address: European Molecular Biology Laboratory, EMBL Hamburg, c/o DESY, Hamburg, Germany

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• Savvas N. Savvides,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Unit for Structural Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, Unit for Structural Biology, VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research, Ghent, Belgium

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• Sarah Hark,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Evonik Operations GmbH, Nutrition & Care, Halle, Westfalen, Germany

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• Stefan Pelzer,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Evonik Operations GmbH, Nutrition & Care, Halle, Westfalen, Germany

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• Richard Ducatelle,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Livestock Gut Health Team (LiGHT) Ghent, Department of Pathobiology, Pharmacology and Zoological Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

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• Filip Van Immerseel ,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: filip.vanimmerseel@ugent.be

  Affiliation Livestock Gut Health Team (LiGHT) Ghent, Department of Pathobiology, Pharmacology and Zoological Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0455-3350

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• Evy Goossens

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Livestock Gut Health Team (LiGHT) Ghent, Department of Pathobiology, Pharmacology and Zoological Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6476-5932

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