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Salmonella colonization in young chickens given feed supplemented with the growth promoting antibiotic avilamycin
Author(s) -
HINTON M.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
journal of veterinary pharmacology and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.527
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1365-2885
pISSN - 0140-7783
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2885.1988.tb00152.x
Subject(s) - colonization , salmonella , broiler , antibiotics , biology , serotype , subclinical infection , microbiology and biotechnology , veterinary medicine , food science , bacteria , medicine , virology , genetics
Hinton, M. Salmonella colonization in young chickens given feed supplemented with the growth promoting antibiotic avilamycin. J. vet. Pharmacol. Therap. 11, 269–275, 1988. The feed given to young broiler chickens was contaminated artificially with Salmonella kedougou , a serotype associated with both subclinical infections in commercially reared chickens and food poisoning in humans. No evidence was obtained to suggest that the growth promoting antibiotic avilamycin, added to the feed at the rate of either 2.5 ppm or 10 ppm, had the undesirable side‐effect of favouring the colonization of the intestinal tract of the birds with Salmonella kedougou when they were challenged with this organism in the feed.