. 2023 Mar 24;10:1126064. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2023.1126064

Table 6.

Cecal bacteria counts in growth-finishing swine reared under a digital livestock system (log cfu/g of fresh cecal content).

Items	Groups ¹
Items	CON	CON0.4	DLSC	DLS0.4	SEM ²	P -value
Lactobacillus	6.71^b	8.52^a	8.13^a	8.15^a	0.260	0.010
E. coli	8.12^a	6.64^c	7.01^b	5.07^d	0.254	0.010
Coliform bacteria	7.72^a	5.01^c	6.32^b	4.83^c	0.198	0.008
Total aerobic bacteria	7.55^a	6.17^b	6.40^b	5.08^c	0.201	0.010

CON (control group with a conventional livestock system without a probiotic mixture), CON0.4 (conventional livestock system with a 0.4% probiotic mixture), DLSC (digital livestock system without a probiotic mixture), and DLS0.4 (digital livestock system with a 0.4% probiotic mixture).

Standard error of mean values, n = 10.

^a,b,c,d

Mean values with different superscripts are significantly different at P < 0.05.