Antimicrobial Growth Promoters Altered the Function but Not the Structure of Enteric Bacterial Communities in Broiler Chicks ± Microbiota Transplantation.

ABSTRACT: Non-antibiotic alternatives to antimicrobial growth promoters (AGPs) are required, and understanding the mode of action of AGPs may facilitate the development of effective alternatives. The temporal impact of the conventional antibiotic AGP, virginiamycin, and an AGP alternative, ceragenin (CSA-44), on the structure and function of the broiler chicken cecal microbiota was determined using next-generation sequencing and ¹H-nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR)-based metabolomics. To elucidate the impact of enteric bacterial diversity, oral transplantation (±) of cecal digesta into 1-day-old chicks was conducted. Microbiota transplantation resulted in the establishment of a highly diverse cecal microbiota in recipient chicks that did not change between day 10 and day 15 po

SUBMITTER: Hodak CR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10044420 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature