Quorum Sensing - a new tool for selecting feed additive ingredients
Published:January 16, 2015
Summary
Nutriad has demonstrated the use of Quorum Sensing (QS) as a tool in the development of two new feed additives: one for broiler production and one for aquaculture. QS Is a form of bacterial communication that is critical to bacterial virulence. By investigating the ability of several highly bioactive compounds to inhibit QS, Nutriad was able to select a combination of components that, in in vivo...
There are studies that even exogenous probiotic strains does quorum sensing as their mode of action in pathogen inhibition. This could be a very interesting tool.