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  • Title: Effect of anticoccidial and antimicrobial feed additives on prevention of Salmonella colonization of chicks treated with anaerobic cultures of chicken feces.
    Author: Bailey JS, Blankenship LC, Stern NJ, Cox NA, McHan F.
    Journal: Avian Dis; 1988; 32(2):324-9. PubMed ID: 3041958.
    Abstract:
    Chicks were treated orally on the day of hatch with either fresh or frozen competitive exclusion (CE) cultures (native gut microflora). Chicks were fed either unmedicated feed or one of five commercial broiler starter rations or nine experimental feed mixtures containing varying amounts and combinations of anticoccidial and antimicrobial medicaments. After 2 days, they were challenged with approximately 10(6) colony-forming units of a nalidixic-acid-resistant strain of Salmonella typhimurium. Six days later, chicks were sacrificed and ceca were analyzed for S. typhimurium. Colonization of 2-day-old chicks was prevented or at least greatly reduced in most instances by treatment of chicks with a CE culture, but the efficacy of CE broth cultures stored at -70 C diminished over time. Not all CE cultures tested gave equal protection against Salmonella colonization, and CE cultures were more susceptible to some feed additives than others. Of the commercial or experimental feed tested, only the feed containing the combination of nicarbazin and bacitracin interfered with the protective effect of the CE culture.
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