Neonatal mortality is mostly due to a reduced piglet maturity. An essential question for adaptation to extra-uterine environment lies in the optimization of the crosstalk between maternal and fetal genomes for a distribution of resources that allows fetuses to express healthier phenotypes at birt...
We assessed the ability of three synbiotic formulations to improve gut health by stabilizing the gut microbiome and to prevent post-weaning diarrhoea in vivo in piglets using a mild Escherichia coli infection model.