Efficacy of dietary supplementation of bacteriophages in treatment of concurrent infections with enterotoxigenic <em>Escherichia coli</em> K88 and K99 in postweaning pigs
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Postweaning diarrhea or colibacillosis is a costly disease causing substantial mortality, as well as growth retardation, in swine production.1-3 Colibacillosis is typically associated with avid intestinal adhesion and fecal shedding of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC). The ETEC causing diarrhea in postweaning pigs carries the F4 (K88) or F18 fimbrial antigen in most cases.4-6 The F5 (K99) antigen has also been found in postweaning diarrhea in Central China7 as well as in South Korea ( JeongHee Han, unpublished data, 2014), although piglets are less susceptible to ETEC K99 than to K88 with increasing age.8
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