. 2021 Apr 16;12:642549. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.642549

Table 4.

Effects of experimental treatments on enterobacteria and coliform counts in fecal samples and ileal scrapings.

	Treatments					RSD	p
	CTR+	PRO	PRE	SYN	CTR−	RSD	p
Enterobacteria (log CFU/g MF)
Feces
Arrival	9.35	9.76	8.10	8.91	7.87	1.259	0.242
Day 0 PI	8.82^ab	10.93^a	10.76^a	7.55^b	10.12^ab	1.685	0.001^*
Day 4 PI	6.41	6.63	6.92	6.29	8.52	1.501	0.043^*
Day 8 PI	5.40^b	5.34^b	6.85^a	5.79^b	6.75^a	0.441	<0.001^*
Ileal scrapings
Day 4 PI	7.59	7.61	7.54	7.46	7.41	0.201	0.393
Day 8 PI	6.62^b	6.62^b	7.62^a	7.59^a	7.24^ab	0.423	<0.001^*
Total coliforms (log CFU/g FM)
Feces
Arrival	9.18	9.70	8.09	8.81	7.87	1.325	0.335
Day 0 PI	8.34^b	10.83^a	10.66^a	5.86^b	9.72^ab	1.248	<0.001^*
Day 4 PI	6.35^ab	6.31^ab	6.82^ab	5.90^b	8.48^a	1.380	0.008^*
Day 8 PI	5.31^b	5.22^b	6.83^a	5.71^b	6.62^a	0.441	<0.001^*
Ileal scrapings
Day 4 PI	7.48	7.46	7.46	7.42	7.31	0.222	0.642
Day 8 PI	5.90^c	6.55^bc	7.18^ab	7.65^a	7.29^ab	0.576	<0.001^*

CTR+: non-inoculated animals receiving placebo; PRO: inoculated animals receiving the probiotics; PRE: inoculated animals receiving the prebiotic; SYN: inoculated animals receiving the synbiotic; CTR−: inoculated animals receiving placebo. N = 6 for all groups except for non-challenged animals (N = 8). Values of p were obtained by an ANOVA using the generalized linear procedure in R software. ^a,bIndicate statistically significant differences between groups. CFU, colony forming units; PI, post-inoculation; RSD, relative standard deviation. To differentiate RSD and values of p from the results numbers, they are in italics. *indicates that values of p are <0.05 and statistical difference is present.