Red osier dogwood extract vs. trimethoprim-sulfadiazine (Part 2). Pharmacodynamic effects on ileal and cecal microbiota of broiler chickens challenged orally with Salmonella Enteritidis

Exploring the modulatory effects of brown seaweed meal and extracts on intestinal microbiota and morphology of broiler chickens challenged with heat stress

“…On cecal microbiota composition, Firmicutes, Proteobacteria and Actinobacteria are the dominating phyla in the current study which is in accordance with our previous studies on broiler chickens ( Erinle et al, 2023 ; Oladokun and Adewole, 2023 ). Considering the effects of dietary treatments on the genus, 2% SWM treatment increased the relative abundance of cecal Fecalibacterium (60.5%) compared to the control diet (3.6%) on d 14, but no treatment effects on d 28.…”

“…Primer sequences were trimmed from sequencing reads and implemented into QIIME2 ( Bolyen et al, 2019 ). Taxonomic assignment was performed with the SILVA database 123 and other bioinformatics steps were followed as highlighted in Oladokun et al (2022) and Erinle et al (2023) . We used rarefaction curves to examine the alpha diversity for all samples.…”