Table 4.
Effect of dietary Achyranthes japonica Nakai (AJN) extract supplementation on cecal microbiota in 35-day-old broilers.
| Items (log10 cfu/g) | AJN extract (%) |
SEM |
P-value |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0.025 | 0.05 | 0.1 | Linear | Quadratic | ||
| Lactic acid bacteria | 7.01 | 7.09 | 7.14 | 7.20 | 0.05 | 0.012 | 0.836 |
| Coliform bacteria | 6.00 | 6.04 | 6.07 | 6.07 | 0.08 | 0.495 | 0.796 |
| Salmonella | 2.71 | 2.64 | 2.51 | 2.39 | 0.15 | 0.108 | 0.876 |
Abbreviation: SEM, pooled standard error of the mean.