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SUBMITTER: Kubasova T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6956218 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kubasova Tereza T Kollarcikova Miloslava M Crhanova Magdalena M Karasova Daniela D Cejkova Darina D Sebkova Alena A Matiasovicova Jitka J Faldynova Marcela M Sisak Frantisek F Babak Vladimir V Pokorna Alexandra A Cizek Alois A Rychlik Ivan I
Microorganisms 20191121 12
Chicks in commercial production are highly sensitive to enteric infections and their resistance can be increased by administration of complex adult microbiota. However, it is not known which adult microbiota members are capable of colonising the caecum of newly hatched chicks. In this study, we therefore orally inoculated chicks with pure cultures of 76 different bacterial isolates originating from chicken caecum on day 1 of life and determined their ability to colonise seven days later. The cae ...[more]