Title
Comparison of experimental competitive-exclusion cultures for controlling Salmonella colonization in broiler chicks
Date Issued
01 January 2003
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Astolfi Ferreira C.
Piantino Ferreira A.
Universidade de São Paulo
Publisher(s)
Sociedade Brasileira de Microbiologia
Abstract
The efficacy of three different types of experimental competitive exclusion (CE-A, CE-B and CE-C) cultures against Salmonella Kedougou (SK) NCTC 12173, resistant to nalidixic-acid resistant (NalR), in one-day-old broiler chicks, in four treatments with three replicates in each treatment, was evaluated. The mean logarithmic counts of Salmonella program of feces were 0.4 L in the group treated with CE-A, derived from the whole cecal contents of an adult bird with a mixture of aerobic and anaerobic bacterial cultures; 1.22 in the group treated with CE-B, containing aerobic bacterial culture; 1.00 in the group treated with CE-C, containing anaerobic bacterial culture; and 6.64 in the control group. The percentage of colonized birds varied from 10% to 26.66% in the treated groups and was 63.33% in the control group. A good protection (76.66% to 90%) was obtained in all treatments whereas lower protection was verified with experimental products containing only aerobic or anaerobic cultures. These results showed that a mixture of aerobic and anaerobic cultures can be effective for reducing SK colonization in broiler chicks.
Start page
354
End page
358
Volume
34
Issue
4
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Biología celular, Microbiología Biotecnología agrícola, Biotecnología alimentaria
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-19944371229
Source
Brazilian Journal of Microbiology
ISSN of the container
15178382
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