Background Thymol and carvacrol as natural essential oils and phenol compounds are
components derived from some medicinal plants, such as thyme and oregano species …

Recent advances in the technology available for culture-independent methods for
identification and enumeration of environmental bacteria have invigorated interest in the …

This chapter talks about antimicrobial compounds that are divided into two classes:
traditional and naturally occurring. Antimicrobials are classified as traditional when they (i) …

Although female cones of the hop plant (Humulus lupulus) are known primarily as raw
material supplying characteristic bitterness and aroma to beer, their equally significant …

The development of antibiotic resistant pathogens has resulted from the use of sub-
therapeutic concentrations of antibiotics delivered in poultry feed. Furthermore, there are a …

Background The majority of chicken microbiota studies have used the ceca as a sampling
site due to the specific role of ceca in chicken productivity, health and wellbeing. However …

1. Plants and their biologically active chemical constituents, sometimes called secondary
metabolites or bioactives, present numerous opportunities for the improvement of livestock …

Three commercial broiler breeds were fed from hatch with a diet supplemented with
Capsicum and Curcuma longa oleoresins, and co-infected with Eimeria maxima and …

Hop cones preparations possess a wide range of biological activities including antimicrobial
properties. In this work, we evaluated the effect of various organic extracts obtained from …

The etiological agent of necrotic enteritis (NE) is Clostridium perfringens (CP), which is an
economically significant problem for broiler chicken producers worldwide. Traditional use of …