This experiment was conducted to determine the effects of replacing corn by 20% barley supplementedwith probiotic, prebiotic and antibiotic on performance, immune response, intestinal morphology, carcass development and nutrient digestibility of broilers. Four hundred Ross 308 one day-old broiler chicks were assigned randomly to 5 dietary treatments and were tested for 42 days in a com...

1761. Figure 1. CSR FeO map of the central basalt pond in Apollo crater. The edges of the basalt pond were modeled as different units due to lateral mixing with the surrounding materials. The absolute FeO abundances from CSR may be overestimated by as much as 2 wt.% [15]. Figure 2. Map of modeled Th compositions used in the forward model. Region 1 = 0.9 ppm Th, Region 2 = 2.5 ppm Th, and Region...

From 1995 to 2000, a total of 673 Enterococcus faecium and 1,088 Enterococcus faecalis isolates from pigs together with 856 E. faecium isolates from broilers were isolated and tested for susceptibility to four classes of antimicrobial agents used for growth promotion as part of the Danish program of monitoring for antimicrobial resistance. The four antimicrobials were avilamycin, erythromycin, ...

OBJECTIVES To detect quinupristin-dalfopristin and virginiamycin M1 resistance in Enterococcus faecium from human, food and environmental sources. MATERIALS AND METHODS Enterococcal isolates derived from human faeces and urine, meat and seawater were screened for resistance to quinupristin-dalfopristin and virginiamycin M1 by an agar dilution method. Identification of all E. faecium strains a...

A selective medium was developed that is capable of isolating Phanerochaete chrysosporium from soil. This medium contains 15 ppm of benomyl (15 mug g) and 550 ppm of streptomycin sulfate in 2% malt agar and is held at 39 degrees C after inoculation. P. chrysosporium was isolated from three nonsterile forest soils to which the fungus had been added. These soils contained large microbial populati...

BACKGROUND The emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance in pathogens have led to a restriction on the use of antibiotic growth promoters (AGPs) in animal feed in some countries. The potential negative after-effects of a ban on AGPs could be mitigated by improving animal intestinal health with prebiotic dietary fibers such as xylo-oligosaccharides (XOS). However, the mechanism(s) by which a...

An experiment was conducted on 400 broilers to evaluate the effects of dietary supplementation ofantibiotic and probiotic on performance of birds under heat stress condition. The first group of chickens, thecontrol group, received a diet without any antibiotic and probiotic. The second group received diet with0.02% virginiamycin antibiotic; the two other groups were fed diets with 0.05% and 0.1...

the effect of lavender essential oil (leo) on broiler performance, carcass characteristics and blood metabolites was examined in a completely randomized design with 5 treatments (control diet, virginiamycin 10% (50 ppm) and 3 diets containing 150, 250, 350 ppm lavender essential oil) and 5 replications in a period of 42-days. no significant differences were noticed for feed intake between the t...

an experiment was conducted on 400 broilers to evaluate the effects of dietary supplementation ofantibiotic and probiotic on performance of birds under heat stress condition. the first group of chickens, thecontrol group, received a diet without any antibiotic and probiotic. the second group received diet with0.02% virginiamycin antibiotic; the two other groups were fed diets with 0.05% and 0.1...