Dietary Probiotic Compound Improves Reproductive Performance of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus-Infected Sows Reared in a Japanese Commercial Swine Farm under Vaccine Control Condition

Lactogenic immunity transferred to piglets after inoculation of a live vaccine to pregnant sows was proved limited to control porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED). Hence, here we evaluated the efficacy of administration of a probiotic compound containing Bacillus mesentericus, Clostridium butyricum, and...

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Main Authors: Takio Inatomi, Masaaki Amatatsu, Gustavo A. Romero-Pérez, Ryo Inoue, Takamitsu Tsukahara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Immunology
Subjects:
sow
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fimmu.2017.01877/full