A high dietary concentration of inulin is necessary to reduce the incidence of swine dysentery in pigs experimentally challenged with Brachyspira hyodysenteriae

British Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 106, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1506-1513

  Hansen, Christian F ^a,b   Hernández, Aracely ^a   Mansfield, Josie ^a   Hidalgo, Álvaro ^c   La, Tom ^a   Phillips, Nyree D ^a   Hampson, David J ^a   Pluske, John R ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Brachyspira hyodysenteriae; Inulin; Pigs; Swine dysentery

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; AMMONIA; BUTYRIC ACID; HEXANOIC ACID; INULIN; ISOBUTYRIC ACID; ISOVALERIC ACID; PROPIONIC ACID; VALERIC ACID; VOLATILE FATTY ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRACHYSPIRA HYODYSENTERIAE; CECUM; COLON; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DYSENTERY; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FERMENTATION; ILEUM; INFECTION RISK; INTESTINE CRYPT; INTESTINE VILLUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PH; RISK REDUCTION; SWINE; SWINE DYSENTERY;

ANIMALS; BRACHYSPIRA HYODYSENTERIAE; DIETARY CARBOHYDRATES; DYSENTERY; INCIDENCE; INULIN; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

BRACHYSPIRA HYODYSENTERIAE; PIERIS BRASSICAE; SPIROCHAETA; SUIDAE;

EID: 80755152976     PISSN: 00071145     EISSN: 14752662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S000711451100208X     Document Type: Article

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