Study finds healthy intestinal bacteria within chicken eggs
Published: June 13, 2008
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The conventional wisdom among scientists has long been that birds acquire the intestinal bacteria that are a necessary for good health from their environment, but a new University of Georgia study finds that chickens are actually born with those bacteria. Lead author Adriana Pedroso said the finding, presented at the 108th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in Boston, could ...
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13 de junio de 2008
Adriana Pedrosa has reported some good work here. I would suggest however that the bacteria arrive in the albumen as the egg is formed in the oviduct. In fact the yolk itself may be colonized by bacteria at the time of ovulation.
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