“…In recent years, C. perfringens type C has become one of the most widespread bacterial infections in the global pig industry and has resulted in great economic loss [4]. To date, RNA-Seq technology has been used to disclose the biological processes and the development of some diseases, including necrotic enteritis [11,23,24], diarrhea [25,26], arthritis [27,28], and even various cancers [29,30]. Additionally, some studies have explored transcriptome sequences of different tissues (including spleen and small intestine) in Escherichia coli [31,32] and Streptococcus suis type 2 [33] infected pigs, giving a huge amount of basic data for illustrating the mechanism of pathogenic bacteria in pigs.…”