Molecules produced by probiotics prevent enteric colibacillosis in pigs

Molecules produced by probiotics prevent enteric colibacillosis in pigs

BACKGROUND With the advent of antimicrobial resistance in animal pathogens, novel methods to combat infectious diseases are being sought. Among these, probiotics have been proposed as a means of promoting animal health but problems with their use has been reported. Research has demonstrated that bioactive molecules produced during the growth of certain probiotics interfere with bacterial cell-t...

Title : Effect of Probiotics on Enteric Colibacillosis – NPB # 98 - 052

Colibacillosis in pigs and its diagnosis

olibacillosis is a major cause of illness and death in neonatal and recently weaned pigs. The disease is usually caused by enterotoxigenic strains of the bacterium Escherichia coli, although nonenterotoxigenic strains of that organism may also occasionally cause the disease. Diarrhea is typically fluid and profuse, and frequently results in severe dehydration and circulatory shock. Enterotoxins...

Prevention of experimentally induced enteric colibacillosis in newborn calves.

Severe enteric colibacillosis, characterized by profuse watery diarrhea, dehydration, apathy, hypothermia, and inability to stand, was produced in seven of eight newborn, colostrum-fed calves from nonvaccinated dams after oral challenge of calves with 10(11) viable cells of Escherichia coli strain B44. Twenty-nine of 32 calves from dams vaccinated with various preparations of E. coli strain B44...

7,9 Probiotics for pigs

7 In 1907 Metchnikoff hypothesised that micro-organisms in fermented milk products affected longevity among humans. In the 1960s the term probiotic was introduced for live micro-organisms that, as food or feed supplements, beneficially affect the intestinal microbial balance of humans or animals. Starting in the 1980s the probiotic concept in animal nutrition developed from a novel concept to p...