ArticleAnimal bioscience2022
An updated review on probiotics as an alternative of antibiotics in poultry - A review.
Article in Animal bioscience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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52 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Modulation of the intestinal microbiota: impact on productive performance and intestinal health in broiler breeder hens.Poultry science · 2026Review
- Dual-strain Bacillus subtilis 597 and 600 complex improves productive performance and nutrient digestibility, egg quality and physiological status in early-to-peak phase laying hens.Poultry science · 2026Article
- The potential of in-ovo probiotics to replace antibiotic growth promoters in broiler diets: Effect on performance, meat quality, cecal fermentation and oxidative stress indicators.Poultry science · 2026Article
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- Modulating drug response through the gut microbiome: pathways to precision therapy.Archives of microbiology · 2026Review
- Effect of bacteriophages on growth performance and health indicators in broiler chickens in the absence of bacterial challenge - A review.Veterinarni medicina · 2026Review
- Lactobacillus salivary LSbg3 is a Potential Food Probiotic Having Excellent Anti-pathogen Effect That Might Improve Antibiotic-Resistant Diarrhea in Dogs.Probiotics and antimicrobial proteins · 2026Article
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- Prospects of feed additive incorporation in laying hen diets: a narrative review of principal biological effects and recent developments.Journal of animal science and technology · 2026Review
- Biological evaluation of chelated trace minerals with multi-strain probiotics and enzymes on production performance of broiler chickens.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Food, Health, and Environmental Impact of Lactic Acid Bacteria: The Superbacteria for Posterity.Probiotics and antimicrobial proteins · 2025Review
- Bacillus subtilis: applications in the livestock and poultry industry in recent years: review.Animal bioscience · 2025Article
- Enhanced Macrophage and Granulocytic Recruitment with Increased Neo-Angiogenesis in Chicken Embryo Yolk Sac Following In Ovo Probiotic Blend Administration.Veterinary sciences · 2025Article
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Abstract
Antibiotics used to be supplemented to animal feeds as growth promoter and as an effective strategy to reduce the burden of pathogenic bacteria present in the gastro-intestinal tract. However, in-feed antibiotics also kill bacteria that may be beneficial to the animal. Secondly, unrestricted use of antibiotics enhanced the antibiotic resistance in pathogenic bacteria. To overcome above problems, scientists are taking a great deal of measures to develop alternatives of antibiotics. There is convincing evidence that probiotics could replace in-feed antibiotics in poultry production. Because they have beneficial effects on growth performance, meat quality, bone health and eggshell quality in poultry. Better immune responses, healthier intestinal microflora and morphology which help the birds to resist against disease attack were also identified with the supplementation of probiotics. Probiotics establish cross-feeding between different bacterial strains of gut ecosystem and reduce the blood cholesterol level via bile salt hydrolase activity. The action mode of probiotics was also updated according to recently published literatures, i.e antimicrobial substances generation or toxin reduction. This comprehensive review of probiotics is aimed to highlight the beneficial effects of probiotics as a potential alternative strategy to replace the antibiotics in poultry.
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