RABBIT EPIZOOTIC ENTERITIS

Since the end of 1996 a new clinical syndrome has broken out in French intensive enclosed rabbitries. This disease firstly named Enterocolit is is now called Rabbit Epizootic Enterocolitis (R. E. E.). The diseas e is spreading throughout many areas in France; there could be some sp oradical cases in Belgium too. Dietary and toxicological origins are d iscarded. Trials carried on to reproduce the disease suggest an infect ious origin. Some improvements are obtained by the use of antibiotics such as tiamulin, neomycin, colistin, apramycin and bacitracin.