Table 4.

Alpha diversity of jejunal mucosa-associated microbiota at species level in pigs fed diets supplemented with ground herb-based phytobiotics¹ and essential oil-based phytobiotics²

		Treatment3				P value
Item	NC	PC	HP	EP	SEM	NC vs. PC	PC vs. HP	PC vs. EP
Chao1	37	36	28	32	2.0	0.921	0.013	0.240
Shannon	1.5	1.7	1.1	1.2	0.2	0.557	0.021	0.581
Simpson	0.7	0.7	0.4	0.6	0.1	0.824	0.018	0.487

¹Salcochek Pro (Ayurvet Limited).

²Liq-biotic (Ayurvet Limited).

³NC, basal diet, non-challenged pigs; PC, basal diet, challenged with F18⁺E. coli; HP, basal diet + 1% ground herb-based phytobiotics, challenged with F18⁺E. coli; EP, basal diet + 1% essential oil-based phytobiotics, challenged with F18⁺E. coli.