A diet change from dry food to beef induces reversible changes on the faecal microbiota in healthy, adult client-owned dogs.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Diet has a major influence on the composition of the gut microbiota, whose importance for gut health and overall well-being is increasingly recognized. Knowledge is limited regarding health implications, including effects on the faecal microbiota, of feeding a diet with high content of red meat to dogs, despite some owners' apparent preference to do so. The aim of this study was to evaluate how a diet change from commercial dry food to one with a high content of boiled minced beef and vice versa influenced the faecal microbiota, and short chain fatty acid profile in healthy, adult, client-owned dogs.

Results

The diet change influenced the faecal microbiota composition and diversity (Shannon diversity index). The most abundant OTUs in samples of dogs fed the dry fo

SUBMITTER: Herstad KMV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5450340 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature