With the increase in regulations regarding the use of antibiotic growth promoters and the rise
in consumer demand for poultry products from 'Raised Without Antibiotics' or 'No Antibiotics …

The microbiome of the broiler chicken gastrointestinal tract (GIT) has been extensively
studied, and it has been amply demonstrated that it plays an important role in the health of …

The domestic chicken is a common model organism for human biological research and of
course also forms the basis of a global protein industry. Recent methodological advances …

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 …

Background The constant global need for food has created a demand for colossal food
production. Every day the world requires more food than it is capable of growing and …

The increase of productivity in the poultry industry has been accompanied by various
impacts, including emergence of a large variety of pathogens and bacterial resistance …

The major goals of the poultry industry are to increase the carcass yield and to reduce
carcass fatness, mainly the abdominal fat pad. The increase in poultry meat consumption …

BACKGROUND In view of a worldwide attempt to restrict or ban the use of antibiotics as
growth promoters in animal production, probiotics, prebiotics and combinations of both, as …

Since in-feed antibiotics (IFAs) are being taken out of broiler diets around the world,
beginning in Sweden in the year 1986, the search for alternatives to replace IFAs has …

The aim of this work was to investigate the efficacy of a new multibacterial species probiotic
in broiler nutrition. The probiotic contained 2 Lactobacillus strains, 1 Bifidobacterium strain, 1 …