Article
Community composition and development of the post-weaning piglet gut microbiome
2020-08-27
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>BackgroundEarly weaning and intensive farming practices predispose piglets to the development of infectious and often lethal diseases, against which antibiotics are used. Besides contributing to the build-up of antimicrobial resistance, antibiotics are known to modulate the gut microbial composition. Studies have previously investigated the effects of probiotics as alternatives to antib...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 7df90694-b6a7-58e8-953a-49a5aba0c078
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-60981/v1
