Pediococcus pentosaceus RC007 and Saccharomyces boulardii RC009 as antibiotic alternatives for gut health in post-weaning pigs.

Aims: The aim of the present study was to evaluate a novel probiotic Pediococcus pentosaceus RC007 used alone and convined with Saccharomyces cerevisiae var. boulardii RC009, as in-feed additives to substitute the nontherapeutic use of antibiotics, and evaluate the different structural characteristics of intestinal bacterial populations between groups, correlated with pig production performance.

Methods And Results: The in vivo study was conducted on post-weaning pigs, from 21 to 56 days old.

Effects of a mixed additive based on Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Lactobacillus rhamnosus on broilers exposed to aflatoxin B by contaminated feed.

The objective of the present study was to explore the influence of dietary supplementation with a mixed additive (MA) containing a probiotic and anti-mycotoxin (Saccharomyces cerevisiae RC016 and Lactobacillus rhamnosus RC007) and its interaction on the performance and health (biochemistry and liver/intestine histopathology) of broilers fed diets contaminated with aflatoxin B (AFB) at 506000±22.1ng/kg. The MA contained S.

In-feed nutritional additive probiotic RC009 can substitute for prophylactic antibiotics and improve the production and health of weaning pigs.

Background And Aims: Non-therapeutic antibiotic use is associated with the current decrease in antibiotic therapeutic efficiency and the emergence of a wide range of resistant strains, which constitutes a public health risk. This study aimed to evaluate the use of var. RC009 as a nutritional feed additive to substitute the prophylactic use of antibiotics and improve the productive performance and health of post-weaning piglets.

Respiratory tract clinometry, fat thickness, haematology and productive parameters associated with direct-fed microbials used as growth promoter antibiotic alternative in weaned piglets.

The objective was to evaluate the effect of two probiotic yeast strains ( RC016 and VM004) as a substitute of growth promoter antibiotics on health status and productive parameters in weaned piglets. Commercial line hybrid piglets (Choice n=200), weaned at 21 d age were allotted by sex, and assigned in 4 pens per treatment (2 pens males and 2 pens females), 10 pigs per pen divided into 2 blocks (with or without antibiotics). Dietary treatments included a basal diet (BD) supplemented with probiotic RC016 and Kluyveromyces marxianus VM004 (100 g, 1 × 1010 CFU/g, respectively), with or without antibiotics, mixed per ton of growth phases diets.

Lithothamnium calcareum (Pallas) Areschoug seaweed adsorbs aflatoxin B in vitro and improves broiler chicken's performance.

This study aimed to evaluate the aflatoxin B (AFB) adsorption capacity of the seaweed Lithothamnium calcareum in vitro and to prevent aflatoxicosis in broiler chickens. In vitro adsorption assays were performed at a single AFB concentration (1 μg/mL) and four seaweed concentrations (0.50, 1, 1.