Recent outbreaks of food-borne diseases highlight the need for reducing bacterial
pathogens in foods of animal origin. Animal enteric pathogens are a direct source for food …

Pathogenic microorganisms are a potential threat to the agriculture and food industries.
Food contamination can be happened in the production levels at any point in the chain by …

Direct-fed microbials (DFMs) are feed additives containing live naturally existing microbes
that can benefit animals' health and production performance. Due to the banned or strictly …

Toxic ingredients in food can lead to serious food-related diseases. Such compounds are
bacterial toxins (Shiga-toxin, listeriolysin, Botulinum toxin), mycotoxins (aflatoxin, ochratoxin …

Silage is one of the main ingredients in dairy cattle diets and it is an important source of
nutrients, particularly energy and digestible fiber. Unlike properly made and managed …

Antibiotics are a key tool used nowadays in health care industry to fight against bacterial
infections; however, repeated antibiotic use or misuses, have led to bacterial resistance …

To address the rapidly growing use of probiotics in animal agriculture, this review discusses
the effect of probiotics on animal growth and development, immune response, and …

The banning in 2006 of the use of antibiotics as animal growth promoters in the European
Union has increased demand from producers for alternative feed additives that can be used …

This report is a summary of the symposium on Alcohol, Intestinal Bacterial Growth, Intestinal
Permeability to Endotoxin, and Medical Consequences, organized by National Institute on …

Infections with Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) cause outbreaks of severe
diarrheal disease in children and the elderly around the world. The severe complications …