Table 2.

Evaluation of prophylactic administration of FloraMax-B11^® or Enrofloxacin on organ invasion and cecal colonization of Salmonella Heidelberg (SH)^a in neonatal turkey poults.

	Liver and spleenb	Cecal tonsilsb	Log10 SH/g of CCTc	Log10 Lactic acid bacteria/g of CCTc
Control SH	2/24 (8.33%)d	5/24 (20.83%)d	0.66 ± 0.29d	6.67 ± 0.26d
FloraMax-B11® + SH	0/24 (0%)d	0/24 (0%)e	0.0 ± 0.0e	7.16 ± 0.24d
Enrofloxacin 50 mg/kg + SH	0/24 (0%)d	8/24 (33.33%)d	1.95 ± 0.28d	4.06 ± 0.22e

Experiment 2.

^aPoults received FloraMax-B11^® or Enrofloxacin from days 1 to 5 of age in the drinking water. At day 6, all groups received fresh water without any treatment. All poults were orally gavaged with 10⁷ cfu/poult of SH at 7 days of age. Poults were humanely killed for culture at 8 days of age.

^bData of liver and spleen as well as cecal tonsils is expressed as positive/total poults (%).

^cLog _10/g of ceca-cecal tonsil (CCT) data is expressed as mean ± SD, n = 12.

^d,eSuperscripts within columns indicate significant difference at P < 0.05.