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. 2019 Dec 17;98(12):6797–6807. doi: 10.3382/ps/pez409

Table 4.

Effect of experimental diets on microbiota composition (Log₁₀ CFU/g) and the pH of the crop, ileum, and cecal in broiler chickens.

	Treatments
Item	CON	MOS	FSBM	MIX	SEM	P-value
Crop
pH	4.53^a	4.49^a	4.28^b	4.20^b	0.065	0.001
Lactic acid bacteria	6.87^b	6.95^b	7.35^a	7.48^a	0.117	0.001
Total anaerobic bacteria	6.65	6.50	6.59	6.36	0.103	0.231
Ileum
pH	6.72^a	6.54^b	6.42^b,c	6.39^c	0.046	<0.001
Lactic acid bacteria	7.58^b	7.76^a,b	7.96^a	7.91^a	0.071	0.002
Clostridium perfringens	4.26^a	4.02^b	3.89^b	3.95^b	0.067	0.002
Coliform	5.70^a	5.34^b	5.26^b	5.14^b	0.101	0.005
Total anaerobic bacteria	7.15	7.02	7.14	6.93	0.130	0.594
Cecal
pH	6.01^a	5.62^b	5.56^b	5.47^b	0.068	<0.001
Lactic acid bacteria	8.13^c	8.54^b	8.70^a,b	9.02^a	0.100	<0.001
Clostridium perfringens	4.52^a	4.26^b	4.12^b	4.19^b	0.084	0.011
Coliform	5.97^a	5.51^b	5.40^b	5.32^b	0.118	0.001
Total anaerobic bacteria	7.68^a	7.40^b	7.33^b	7.49^a,b	0.087	0.040

CON = control; MOS = mannan-oligosaccharides; FSBM = fermented soybean meal; MIX = MOS + FSBM

^{^a–c}

Means with different superscripts in each row are statistically different (P < 0.05).