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ReviewAIMS microbiology2024

Microbial feed additives in ruminant feeding.

Ahmed E Kholif, Anuoluwapo Anele, Uchenna Y Anele

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Review in AIMS microbiology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Ahmed E KholifDepartment of Animal Sciences, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Greensboro, NC 27411, USA.
Anuoluwapo AneleDepartment of Natural Resources and Environmental Design, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Greensboro, NC 27411, USA.
Uchenna Y AneleDepartment of Animal Sciences, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Greensboro, NC 27411, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The main purposes of feed additives administration are to increase feed quality, feed utilization, and the performance and health of animals. For many years, antibiotic-based feed additives showed promising results; however, their administration in animal feeds has been banned due to some public concerns regarding their residues in the produced milk and meat from treated animals. Some microorganisms have desirable properties and elicit certain effects, which makes them potential alternatives to antibiotics to enhance intestinal health and ruminal fermentation. The commonly evaluated microorganisms are some species of bacteria and yeasts. Supplementing microorganisms to ruminants boosts animal health, feed digestion, ruminal fermentation, animal performance (meat and milk), and feed efficiency. Moreover, feeding microorganisms helps young calves adapt quickly to consume solid feed and prevents thriving populations of enteric pathogens in the gastrointestinal tract which cause diarrhea.

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Direct feed microbialfeed additivesmicroorganismsmode of actionperformanceruminants

Identifiers

PMID39219749
PMCPMC11362274

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