Table 7.

Effect of treatment on dysbacteriosis scoring, secretory IgA (sIgA) and serum alpha-1-acid-glycoprotein (AAGP) concentrations.

	NC	CC	CC+Probiotic	SEM	P-value
Dysbacteriosis scores
24 d of age	0.53	1.00	0.47	0.194	0.140
42 d of age	1.30	1.33	1.00	0.280	0.659
sIgA, μg/ml
24 d of age	73.7	73.2	82.8	3.01	0.052
42 d of age	84.2b	87.4b	101a	2.42	<0.001
AAGP, μg/ml
24 d of age	325b	436a	360ab	23.15	0.006
42 d of age	349b	443a	297b	15.87	<0.001

NC, non-challenged control; CC, challenged control; CC+Probiotic, challenged control + dual strain probiotic; SEM, standard error of the mean

^aMeans within a row bearing different superscript letters are significantly different at P < 0.05.

^bMeans within a row bearing different superscript letters are significantly different at P < 0.05.