TY - JOUR AU - Xu, Bocheng AU - Fu, Jie AU - Zhu, Luoyi AU - Li, Zhi AU - Jin, Mingliang AU - Wang, Yizhen PY - 2021 DA - 2021/01/07 TI - Overall assessment of antibiotic substitutes for pigs: a set of meta-analyses JO - Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology SP - 3 VL - 12 IS - 1 AB - Antibiotic growth promoters are widely used to improve weight gain. However, the abuse of antibiotics can have many negative effects on people. Developing alternatives to antibiotics is an urgent need in livestock production. We aimed to perform a meta-analysis and network meta-analysis (NMA) to investigate the effects of feed additives as potential antibiotic substitutes (ASs) on bacteriostasis, growth performance, intestinal morphology and immunity. Furthermore, the primary, secondary, and tertiary ASs were defined by comparing their results with the results of antibiotics. SN - 2049-1891 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40104-020-00534-2 DO - 10.1186/s40104-020-00534-2 ID - Xu2021 ER -