Interaction between bacterial microbiota and nematode parasite communities in sheep's gastrointestinal tract.

ABSTRACT: The economic impact of gastrointestinal (GI) nematode infections on livestock production is well documented worldwide. Increasing evidence supports the hypothesis that parasite colonization induces significant changes in the GI tract environment and, therefore, in the landscape where the microbiota and parasites occur. Understanding the interactions between bacterial and parasite populations in the digestive tract of livestock may be useful to design parasite control strategies based on microbiota modification. The aims of this work were to investigate the impact of the oxytetracycline-mediated manipulation of the gut microbial community on the composition of GI nematode populations in naturally infected sheep and to explore changes in the GI microbial communities after nematode population

SUBMITTER: Mate L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11210874 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature