Advances in research on the major causative agents of morbidity and mortality in newborn alpacas associated with enteric processes in southern Peru were reviewed. Microbiology and molecular analyses performed on intestinal samples from enterotoxemia fatalities confirmed the predominance of C. perfringens type A carrying only the gene
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