Dietary supplementation with Lactiplantibacillus plantarum P-8 improves the growth performance and gut microbiota of weaned piglets

ABSTRACTWeaning is a stressful event in the pig life cycle. We hypothesized that probiotics could be potential alternatives to antibiotics for promoting growth and ameliorating stress in weaning piglets via gut microbiota modulation and, thus, investigated the beneficial effects of dietary probiotic...

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Main Authors: Jie Yu, Bin Zuo, Qi Li, Feiyan Zhao, Junjun Wang, Weiqiang Huang, Zhihong Sun, Yongfu Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2024-02-01
Series:Microbiology Spectrum
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.02345-22