The incidence of swine dysentery in pigs can be reduced by feeding diets that limit the amount of fermentable substrate entering the large intestine

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 126, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 2920-2933

  Pluske, John R ^a,c   Siba, Peter M ^a   Pethick, David W ^a   Durmic, Zorica ^a   Mullan, Bruce P ^b   Hampson, David J ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

non starch polysaccharides; pigs; resistant starch; Serpulina hyodysenteriae; swine dysentery

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRACHYSPIRA; CARBOHYDRATE INTAKE; DYSENTERY; FERMENTATION; FOOD PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN INTAKE; SWINE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CECUM; COLON; DIET; DYSENTERY; FERMENTATION; HORDEUM; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MALE; ORYZA SATIVA; POLYSACCHARIDES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SERPULINA HYODYSENTERIAE; SPIROCHAETALES INFECTIONS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; TRITICUM; ZEA MAYS;

ANIMALIA; BRACHYSPIRA; BRACHYSPIRA HYODYSENTERIAE; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; SUS SCROFA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0029961285     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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