Table 3.
Fecal score of pigs challenged with E. coli F18+ (CH) on d 13 postweaning and fed diets supplemented with multispecies probiotics (PRO).
| Item | CH- |
CH+ |
SEM |
P-value |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PRO- | PRO+ | PRO- | PRO+ | CH | PRO | CH × PRO | ||
| Pigs with diarrhea/Pigs per treatment (fecal score)1 | ||||||||
| Pre-challenge | 0/8 (0.67) | 0/8 (0.77) | 0/8 (0.67) | 0/8 (0.69) | 0.15 | 0.780 | 0.691 | 0.780 |
| Post–challenge | 1/8 (0.47) | 0/8 (0.38) | 5/8 (1.26) | 5/8 (1.06) | 0.19 | 0.001 | 0.467 | 0.790 |
| P1 (d 0 to 9) | 0/8 (0.71) | 0/8 (0.88) | 0/8 (0.63) | 0/8 (0.86) | 0.17 | 0.777 | 0.272 | 0.856 |
| P2 (d 9 to 25) | 1/8 (0.48) | 0/8 (0.37) | 5/8 (1.17) | 5/8 (0.94) | 0.17 | 0.002 | 0.338 | 0.737 |
| Overall | 1/8 (0.53) | 0/8 (0.51) | 5/8 (1.06) | 5/8 (0.94) | 0.16 | 0.001 | 0.934 | 0.497 |
1
Fecal scores > 1 were considered as diarrhea.