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. 2022 Apr 4;13:39. doi: 10.1186/s40104-022-00685-4

Table 8.

Effect of ANE and residual effect of ZnO on colonic and caecal Salmonella counts and on colonic bacterial populations on d 34 (Least-square mean values ± SEM)

Bacterial group, logGCN/g digesta Treatment1 SEM P-value
Control ZnO-residual ANE
Caecal digesta
Salmonella enterica 6.16 6.30 6.28 0.093 0.536
Colonic digesta
 Total bacteria 11.98 11.95 11.87 0.051 0.324
Lactobacillus spp. 10.97 11.07 11.28 0.146 0.324
Bifidobacterium spp. 7.12ab 6.85b 7.49a 0.159 0.025
 Enterobacteriaceae 7.35a 6.49b 6.66b 0.210 0.017
 B-CoA 8.08 8.18 8.12 0.112 0.809
Prevotella spp. 11.62 11.57 11.58 0.075 0.884
Salmonella enterica 7.15 7.17 6.98 0.098 0.321

ANE, Ascophyllum nodosum extract; ZnO, Zinc oxide; GCN, Gene copy number; B-CoA, Butyryl-CoA:acetate CoA-transferase

a,bMean values within a row with different lowercase superscript letter indicate significant differences between dietary treatments (P < 0.05)

1A total of 12 replicates were used per dietary treatment (replicate = pig)