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Understanding the chicken intestinal microbiome : towards a rational approach to feed-based interventions
2020-01-01
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The intestinal microbiome has been identified as a key component in animal health. This has led to the development of direct-fed microbials which aim to optimise the composition of the intestinal microbiome in order to improve production or disease resistance. In the case of broiler chickens reared for meat, direct-fed microbials could replace antibiotics which have been a mainstay of growth promotion and disease...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 6fb04cb4-3280-59d7-af7f-e6720c2ee24d
- DOI
- 10.17638/03100526