The microbiota of farmed mink (Neovison vison) follows a successional development and is affected by early life antibiotic exposure.

ABSTRACT: On many mink farms, antibiotics are used extensively during the lactation period to reduce the prevalence and severity of pre-weaning diarrhoea (PWD) in mink kits (also referred to as greasy kit syndrome). Concerns have been raised, that routine treatment of PWD with antibiotics could affect the natural successional development of the gut microbiota, which may have long lasting consequences. Here we investigated the effects of early life antibiotic treatment administered for 1 week (postnatal days 13-20). Two routes of antibiotic administration were compared to a non-treated control group (CTR, n = 24). Routes of administration included indirect treatment, through the milk from dams receiving antibiotics by intramuscular administration (ABX_D, n = 24) and direct treatment by intramuscular

SUBMITTER: Bahl MI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7686315 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature