Nanopore versus Illumina to study the gut bacterial diversity of sows and piglets between farms with high and low health status.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Antibiotics are used in animal husbandry to control infectious diseases. Different stressors can compromise animal health, leaving piglets vulnerable to pathogens, especially enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC), which causes post-weaning diarrhoea (PWD), the major source of mortality and morbidity in swine production. Furthermore, PWD is a recurrent disease for certain farms, suggesting a link between gut microbial composition and animal health. The aim of this study was to identify the intestinal microbiota of pigs on farms with high health status (HHS) and low health status (LHS) to determine the relationships between sanitary status and gut health. Therefore, three pig farms with LHS presenting recurrent problems of PWD and three farms with HHS were selected to ch

SUBMITTER: Tort-Miro C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11969850 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature