Supplementation of a new combination of prebiotic and postbiotic shapes fecal microbiota of old dogs while influencing immune parameters.

ABSTRACT: Healthy senior dogs were subjected for 77 days to a dietary regime with (or without) prebiotic + postbiotic mixture composed by short-chain fructo-oligosaccharides and yeast fractions (scFOS+). Their fecal microbiota was studied and the links between the microbiota and immune parameters were investigated after Lyme vaccination. All along the study results showed a clear modulation of the microbiota with a higher relative abundance (RA) for Megamonas spp., Bacteroidaceae, Bacteroidetes plebeius, Clostridiales, Phascolarctobacterium, Succinivibrionaceae, Fusobacterium spp. in feces from scFOS + dogs. An amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) index (Enterobacteriaceae + Clostridium spiroforme vs. Fusobacterium + Megamonas) was developed and found significantly different between the groups with scF

SUBMITTER: Rodiles A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12322041 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature