Abstract:In the poultry industry, antibiotics are used worldwide to prevent poultry pathogens and diseases so as to improve meat and egg production. However, the use of dietary antibiotics resulted in common problems such as development of drug-resistant bacteria, drug residues in the body of the birds Intestinal bacteria play an important role in the nutritional, physiological, immunological and protective functions of the host and can be influenced by the diet. An alternative approach to sub-therapeutic antibiotics i… Show more
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