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SUBMITTER: Pham VH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7033934 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pham Van Hieu VH Kan Liugang L Huang Jinyu J Geng Yanqiang Y Zhen Wenrui W Guo Yuming Y Abbas Waseem W Wang Zhong Z
Journal of animal science and biotechnology 20200221
<h4>Background</h4>The poultry industry is in need of effective antibiotic alternatives to control outbreaks of necrotic enteritis (NE) due to <i>Clostridium perfringens</i>. In the present study, we investigated the effects of dietary supplementation with a blend of encapsulated essential oils and organic acids (BLJ) on growth performance and gut health using a coinfection model of NE in broiler chickens.<h4>Methods</h4>Two hundred and eighty-eight one-day-old male Arbor Acres broiler chicks we ...[more]