Dietary strategies to influence the gastrointestinal microflora of young animals, and its potential to improve intestinal health

By J. Snel, H. Harmsen, P. V. D. Wielen, B. Williams. 2002

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Antibiotic growth promoters in agriculture: history and mode of action. (2005, background): “…Enterococci and Lactobacilli are the dominant species in the crop, duodenum, and ileum during the first week of life, whereas coliforms, Enterococci, and Lactobacilli are present in high numbers in the ceca (Barnes et al., 1972; Mead and Adams, 1975; van der Wielen et al., 2000; Snel et al., 2002).”
Dietary modulation of gut microflora in broiler chickens: a review of the role of six kinds of alternatives to in-feed antibiotics (2009, background): “Prebiotics have the advantage, compared with probiotics, that bacteria are stimulated which are normally present in the GIT of that individual animal and therefore already adapted to that environment (Snel et al., 2002).”