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Table 4.

Effects of dietary treatments on ileal microbial counts in broiler chickens at 35 days of age⁴.

Item	Treatments				SEM⁸	P-value
Item	Control	XG⁵	XG + P⁶	XG + A⁷	SEM⁸	P-value
Lactobacillus, log₁₀ cfu/g	8.13	8.45	7.87	7.92	0.129	0.41
E. coli, log₁₀ cfu/g	7.22^1,2	7.45¹	6.29³	6.73^2,3	0.221	0.03

^{1, 2, 3} Means not sharing the same superscripts are significantly different (P < 0.05).

⁴

Data represent the mean of 6 replicate pens of 10 broiler chickens per pen.

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XG = xylanase and β-glucanase (100 g/t; Natugrain, BASF, Germany).

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P = phytase (100 g/t; Phyzyme XP 5000, Danisco Animal Nutrition, UK).

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A = acidifier (3,000 g/t; BioAcid Ultra, Biochem, Germany).

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SEM = standard error of the mean.