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Intestinal bacterial community and growth performance of chickens fed diets containing antibiotics.
Poultry science - 1 Apr 2006
Pedroso A A, Menten J F M, Lambais M R, Racanicci A M C, Longo F A, Sorbara J O B
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This study was conducted to relate the performance of broiler chickens fed diets containing growth-promoting antibiotics to changes in the intestinal microbiota. The technique of denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) of amplicons of the region V3 of 16S rDNA was used to characterize the microbiota. Two experiments were conducted, one with broilers raised in battery cages and the other with broilers...
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