Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology

Table 2 Effects of phages on nutrient digestibility in pigs

From: Bacteriophages as antimicrobial agents against major pathogens in swine: a review

Diets	Dry matter	Nitrogen	Energy	Crude protein	References
BD¹	0.774^b	0.770^b	0.766^b		Yan et al. [15]
BD + 22 ppm tylosin	0.801^a	0.784^ab	0.792^a
BD + 0.025 % phage	0.793^a	0.801^a	0.778^ab
BD + 0.05 % phage	0.796^a	0.792^a	0.785^ab
BD	0.841		0.874	0.831	Kim et al.[16]
BD + 0.5 g/kg phage	0.846		0.875	0832
BD + 1.0 g/kg phage	0.847		0.875	0.838
BD + 1.5 g/kg phage	0.852		0.879	0.845

¹BD = Basal diet
^a,bMeans in the same column with different superscripts differ (P < 0.05)

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