Table 3.
Evaluation of fermented soybean meal (FSBM) on body weight (BW), body weight gain (BWG), serum concentration of fluorescein isothiocyanate–dextran (FITC-d) levels, Salmonella recovery in ceca-cecal tonsils (CCT), and total mortality in turkey poults challenged with Salmonella typhimurium (ST) in the prophylactic model (Experiment 2) and therapeutic model (Experiment 3).
| Treatments | Prophylactic Model 1 Experiment 2 |
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| BW at 10 Days (g) | BWG at 10 Days (g) | FITC-d (µg/mL) | CCT ST Log10 CFU/g 2 | CCT +/− (%) 3 | Total Mortality (%) 4 | |
| Control | 195.22 ± 3.71 b | 132.48 ± 3.80 b | 205.00 ± 16.31 b | 0 ± 0 | 0/24 (0%) | 0/24 (0%) |
| FSBM | 212.00 ± 3.63 a | 148.03 ± 3.67 a | 74.73 ± 23.47 d | 0 ± 0 | 0/24 (0%) | 0/24 (0%) |
| Control + ST | 153.54 ± 4.66 d | 91.50 ± 4.70 d | 261.35 ± 19.36 a | 0.99 ± 0.34 | 8/24 (33.33%) | 0/24 (0%) |
| FSBM + ST | 182.00 ± 5.03 c | 120.12 ± 5.02 c | 167.61 ± 20.10 c | 0.13 ± 0.15 | 6/24 (25.00%) | 0/24 (0%) |
| Treatments |
Therapeutic Model 5
Experiment 3 |
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| BW at 7 Days (g) | BWG at 7 Days (g) | FITC-d (µg/mL) | CCT ST Log10 CFU/g 2 | CCT +/− (%) 3 | Total Mortality (%) 4 | |
| Control | 137.59 ± 2.70 b | 75.14 ± 2.70 b | 233.00 ± 26.31 a | 0 ± 0 | 0/24 (0%) | 0/24 (0%) |
| FSBM | 152.30 ± 2.34 a | 88.33 ± 2.51 a | 61.11 ± 16.98 b | 0 ± 0 | 0/24 (0%) | 0/24 (0%) |
| Control + ST | 85.86 ± 2.73 d | 24.50 ± 2.67 d | 218.62 ± 40.22 a | 3.75 ± 0.44 | 24/24 (100%) | 8/24 (33.33%) a |
| FSBM + ST | 120.04 ± 3.30 c | 60.07 ± 3.08 c | 78.49 ± 16.98 b | 3.13 ± 0.38 | 24/24 (100%) | 2/ 24 (8.33%) b |
1 Turkeys were orally gavaged with 106 CFU/mL of S. typhimurium per turkey at 9-d old, and samples were collected 24 h later; 2 CFU data expressed as mean ± standard error (n = 24 turkeys); 3 Data expressed as positive/total turkeys (%); 4 Data expressed as death turkey poults/total turkey poults (%); 5 Turkeys were orally gavaged with 104 CFU/mL of S. typhimurium per turkey at 1-d old, samples were collected seven days later. Superscripts within a column with no common superscript differ significantly p < 0.05.