Effects of dietary fat source and subtherapeutic levels of antibiotic on the bacterial community in the ileum of broiler chickens at various ages

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 68, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 5918-5924

  Knarreborg, Ane ^a   Simon, Mary Alice ^b   Engberg, Ricarda M ^a   Jensen, Bent Borg ^a   Tannock, Gerald W ^b  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; CELL CULTURE; ELECTROPHORESIS; OILS AND FATS;

DIETARY SUPPLEMENTATION;

BACTERIA;

ALPHA TOXIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AVILAMYCIN; LARD; SALINOMYCIN; SOYBEAN OIL;

ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIUM; FAT; POULTRY;

ADOLESCENT; AGE; AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHICKEN; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG USE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FAT INTAKE; ILEUM; LACTOBACILLUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; CHICKENS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DIETARY FATS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ILEUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; ENTEROBACTERIA; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GALLUS GALLUS; GLYCINE MAX; LACTOBACILLUS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0242515761     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.68.12.5918-5924.2002     Document Type: Article

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