The Microbial Community of the Respiratory Tract of Commercial Chickens and Turkeys.

ABSTRACT: Respiratory tract health critically affects the performance of commercial poultry. This report presents data on the microbial community in these organs from a comprehensive study of laying chickens and turkey breeders. The main objective was to characterize and compare the compositions of the respiratory system bacteria isolated from birds of different ages and geographical locations in Poland. Using samples from 28 turkey and 26 chicken flocks, the microbial community was determined by 16S ribosomal RNA sequencing. There was great variability between flocks. The diversity and abundance of upper respiratory tract (URT) bacteria was greater in chickens than in turkeys. At the phyla level, the URT of the chickens was heavily colonized by Proteobacteria, which represented 66.4% of the total m

SUBMITTER: Kursa O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9147466 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature