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The use of additives as an alternative to antimicrobials on broiler performance

Published: October 20, 2011
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Introduction The trend to avoid using antimicrobial growth promoters in the feed has resulted in a more intensive search of alternative feed additives that have the ability of maintaining animal productivity while not affecting the quality of the end product. Among such alternatives, probiotics, prebiotics, symbiotics, organic acids, etc. Fuller (1989) defined a probiotic as a feed supplem...
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Steven
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10 de julio de 2012
guess antimicrobial peptides a good alternative
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