Table-6.
Effect of dietary hydrolyzed yeast supplementation on fecal microbial shedding in weaning pigs1.
| Criteria | Hydrolyzed yeast supplementation | SEM | Probability | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Control | HY5 | HY10 | HY15 | Treatment | Linear | Quadratic | ||
| Microbial shedding, log10 cfu/g | ||||||||
| Salmonella spp. | 6.67a | 4.23b | 4.94b | 4.36b | 0.553 | 0.026 | 0.024 | 0.016 |
| Escherichia coli | 5.94a | 4.18b | 4.75a,b | 3.65b | 0.546 | 0.050 | 0.021 | 0.019 |
| Lactobacillus spp. | 6.22 | 8.28 | 9.09 | 9.32 | 1.049 | 0.189 | 0.048 | 0.293 |
HY5, HY10 and HY15=Basal diet with hydrolyzed yeast supplementation at 0.5, 1.0 and 1.5 g/kg diet, respectively.
1
Least squares means of six piglets per treatment.
a,b
Means within the same row with different letters show a significant difference of p<0.05. SEM=Standard error of the mean