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Intestinal microbiota modulation and improved growth in pigs with post-weaning antibiotic and ZnO supplementation but only subtle microbiota effects with Bacillus altitudinis
Crespo-Piazuelo, Daniel Lawlor, Peadar G. Ranjitkar, Samir Cormican, Paul Villodre, Carmen Bouwhuis, Meike A. Marsh, Alan Crispie, Fiona Rattigan, Ruth Gardiner, Gillian E.
Crespo-Piazuelo, Daniel
Lawlor, Peadar G.
Ranjitkar, Samir
Cormican, Paul
Villodre, Carmen
Bouwhuis, Meike A.
Marsh, Alan
Crispie, Fiona
Rattigan, Ruth
Gardiner, Gillian E.
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2021-12-2
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Crespo-Piazuelo, D., Lawlor, P.G., Ranjitkar, S., Cormican, P., Villodre, C., Bouwhuis, M.A., Marsh, A., Crispie, F., Rattigan, R. and Gardiner, G.E. Intestinal microbiota modulation and improved growth in pigs with post-weaning antibiotic and ZnO supplementation but only subtle microbiota effects with Bacillus altitudinis. Scientific Reports, 2021, 11(1), p.23304.
Abstract
The objective was to evaluate the effect of dietaryBacillus altitudinis spore supplementation during day (D)0–28 post-weaning (PW) and/or D29–56 PW compared with antibiotic and zinc oxide (AB + ZnO) supplementation on pig growth and gut microbiota. Eighty piglets were selected at weaning and randomly assigned to one of five dietary treatments: (1) negative control (Con/Con); (2) probiotic spores from D29–56 PW (Con/Pro); (3) probiotic spores from D0–28 PW (Pro/Con); (4) probiotic spores from D0–56 PW (Pro/Pro) and (5) AB + ZnO from D0–28 PW. Overall, compared with the AB + ZnO group, the Pro/Con group had lower body weight, average daily gain and feed intake and the Pro/Pro group tended to have lower daily gain and feed intake. However, none of these parameters differed between any of the probiotic-treated groups and the Con/Con group. Overall, AB + ZnO-supplemented pigs had higher Bacteroidaceae and Prevotellaceae and lower Lactobacillaceae and Spirochaetaceae abundance compared to the Con/Con group, which may help to explain improvements in growth between D15–28 PW. The butyrate-producing genera Agathobacter ,Faecalibacterium and Roseburia were more abundant in the Pro/Con group compared with the Con/Con group on D35 PW. Thus, whilst supplementation with B. altitudinis did not enhance pig growth performance, it did have a subtle, albeit potentially beneficial, impact on the intestinal microbiota.