ReviewPathogens (Basel, Switzerland)2023
Probiotics and Postbiotics as an Alternative to Antibiotics: An Emphasis on Pigs.
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- Maternal Bacillus probiotic regulates offspring growth and immunity via spleen IGF-1/mTOR and FOXO1/IL-10 pathways.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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- One Health Perspective on Antimicrobial Resistance in Bovine Mastitis Pathogens-A Narrative Review.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
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- Cell surface polysaccharides in the gut microbiota: occurrence, structure and role.Gut microbes · 2025Review
- Functional Foods Based on Postbiotics as a Food Allergy Treatment.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Probiotic potential of 'lactobacilli' isolated from traditionally fermented Ethiopian honey wine (Tej).BMC microbiology · 2025Article
- Vaginal pharmacomicrobiomics modulates risk of persistent and recurrent bacterial vaginosis.NPJ biofilms and microbiomes · 2025Review
- Complete genome sequence and genomic characterization of the probioticOpen veterinary journal · 2025Review
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- Influence of host-specific and locally isolated multi-strain probiotics on piglet performance, mortality, inflammatory response, and gut microbiome.Animal bioscience · 2025Article
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8 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Probiotics are being used as feed/food supplements as an alternative to antibiotics. It has been demonstrated that probiotics provide several health benefits, including preventing diarrhea, irritable bowel syndrome, and immunomodulation. Alongside probiotic bacteria-fermented foods, the different structural components, such as lipoteichoic acids, teichoic acids, peptidoglycans, and surface-layer proteins, offer several advantages. Probiotics can produce different antimicrobial components, enzymes, peptides, vitamins, and exopolysaccharides. Besides live probiotics, there has been growing interest in consuming inactivated probiotics in farm animals, including pigs. Several reports have shown that live and killed probiotics can boost immunity, modulate intestinal microbiota, improve feed efficiency and growth performance, and decrease the incidence of diarrhea, positioning them as an interesting strategy as a potential feed supplement for pigs. Therefore, effective selection and approach to the use of probiotics might provide essential features of using probiotics as an important functional feed for pigs. This review aimed to systematically investigate the potential effects of lactic acid bacteria in their live and inactivated forms on pigs.
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