Pigs experimentally infected with Serpulina hyodysenteriae can be protected from developing swine dysentery by feeding them a highly digestible diet

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 207-216

  Siba, P M ^a   Pethick, D W ^a   Hampson, D J ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VOLATILE FATTY ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRACHYSPIRA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET THERAPY; DYSENTERY; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FECES; FERMENTATION; LARGE INTESTINE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PH; PROTEIN DIET; PROVOCATION TEST; RICE; SWINE; WHEAT;

EID: 0029868714     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268800052456     Document Type: Article

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