Feeding the probiotic Enterococcus faecium strain NCIMB 10415 to piglets specifically reduces the number of Escherichia coli pathotypes that adhere to the gut mucosa

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 7896-7904

  Bednorz, Carmen ^a   Guenther, Sebastian ^a   Oelgeschläger, Kathrin ^a   Kinnemann, Bianca ^a   Pieper, Robert ^a   Hartmann, Susanne ^a   Tedin, Karsten ^a   Semmler, Torsten ^a   Neumann, Konrad ^b   Schierack, Peter ^c   Bethe, Astrid ^a   Wieler, Lothar H ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; E. FAECIUM STRAIN; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM STRAINS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PATHOGENIC E. COLI; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SPECIFIC EFFECTS;

BACILLI; CLONING; ECOSYSTEMS; ELECTROPHORESIS; PATHOGENS; POPULATION STATISTICS; STRAIN;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

DISEASE CONTROL; FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LIVESTOCK FARMING; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PATHOTYPE; PIG; PROBIOTICS; VIRULENCE;

PROBIOTIC AGENT; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIET; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INTESTINE MUCOSA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PHYLOGENY; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SWINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIET; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENOTYPE; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PHYLOGENY; PROBIOTICS; SWINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84888251731     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.03138-13     Document Type: Article

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