A cross-sectional study of the nasal and fecal microbiota of sows from different health status within six commercial swine farms.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cull sows are a unique population on swine farms, often representing poor producing or compromised animals, and even though recent studies have reported that the microbiome is associated with susceptibility to diseases, the microbiome of the cull sow population has not been explored. The main objective of this study was to investigate whether there were differences in fecal and upper respiratory tract microbiota composition for groups of sows of different health status (healthy, cull, and compromised/ clinical sows) and from different farms (1 to 6).

Methods

Six swine farms were visited once. Thirty individual fecal samples and nasal swabs were obtained at each farm and pooled by five across health status and farm. Samples underwent 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequenci

SUBMITTER: Arruda AG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8451438 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature