Impact of Bacteriophage-Supplemented Drinking Water on the E. coli Population in the Chicken Gut.

ABSTRACT: Among intestinal coliform microbes in the broiler gut, there are potentially pathogenic Escherichia (E.) coli that can cause avian colibacillosis. The treatment with antibiotics favors the selection of multidrug-resistant bacteria and an alternative to this treatment is urgently required. A chicken model of intestinal colonization with an apathogenic model strain of E. coli was used to test if oral phage application can prevent or reduce the gut colonization of extraintestinal pathogenic E. coli variants in two individual experiments. The E. coli strain E28 was used as a model strain, which could be differentiated from other E. coli strains colonizing the broiler gut, and was susceptible to all cocktail phages applied. In the first tr

SUBMITTER: Kittler S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7238078 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature