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Table 10.

Effect of necrotic enteritis (NE), phytase (Phy) and meat and bone meal (MBM) on bacterial quantification (log₁₀ [genomic DNA copies/g of caecal contents]) from broilers, d 16.

Item	Factors			Lactobacillus spp.	Ruminicoccus spp.	Bacteroides spp.	Bacillus spp.	Bifidobacteria spp.	Total bacteria	Clostridium perfringens
Item	NE	Phy	MBM	Lactobacillus spp.	Ruminicoccus spp.	Bacteroides spp.	Bacillus spp.	Bifidobacteria spp.	Total bacteria	Clostridium perfringens
Main effects
NE	–			9.35^b	8.86	7.52^b	8.15	9.51^b	10.47	0.00^b
NE	+			9.72^a	8.67	7.84^a	8.32	9.76^a	10.60	8.92^a
Phy		500		9.54	8.74	7.64	8.18	9.54	10.53	4.34
Phy		5,000		9.53	8.80	7.72	8.29	9.72	10.55	4.58
P-value
NE				0.002	0.189	0.001	0.133	0.015	0.366	0.001
Phy				0.932	0.675	0.375	0.357	0.065	0.880	0.241
MBM				0.155	0.383	0.783	0.408	0.603	0.913	0.769
NE × Phy				0.723	0.954	0.905	0.860	0.608	0.685	0.241
NE × MBM				0.862	0.566	0.786	0.314	0.637	0.664	0.769
Phy × MBM				0.311	0.549	0.597	0.132	0.926	0.286	0.920
NE × Phy ×MBM				0.890	0.731	0.543	0.969	0.457	0.584	0.920

^{a, b} In the same column within the main effect, means with different superscripts are different (P < 0.05).