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. 2018 Jul 31;71:16. doi: 10.1186/s13620-018-0128-y

Table 3.

Effect of oridonin on cecal microbiota of broilers challenged with S. pullorum (log CFU)

Items Diet SEM2 P-value
CON SCC O1 O2 O3
Day 7
Lactobacillus 7.34a 5.94c 6.59b 6.97ab 7.40a 0.13 0.001
Salmonella 7.13b 8.24a 7.16b 7.13b 6.94b 0.11 0.003
Day 14
Lactobacillus 7.41a 6.76b 7.59a 7.73a 7.82a 0.11 0.002
Salmonella 5.64c 7.57a 6.37b 5.72c 5.27c 0.17 0.002
Day 21
Lactobacillus 6.91b 6.76b 6.83b 7.12ab 7.39a 0.06 0.044
Salmonella 6.76b 7.67a 7.13ab 6.69b 6.32b 0.12 0.005

1CON = nonchallenge control, SCC = Salmonella-challenged control, O1 = S. pullorum challenge fed the basal diet plus 50 mg/kg ORI; O2 = S. pullorum challenge fed the basal diet plus 80 mg/kg ORI, O3 = S. pullorum challenge fed the basal diet plus 100 mg/kg ORI

2SEM = standard error of mean

3,a,b,cValues within a row not sharing the same superscript are different at P < 0.05; n = 6