Effects of dietary supplementation of bacteriophage cocktail on health status of weanling pigs in a non-sanitary environment

Table 8 Effects of bacteriophage cocktail or ZnO on fecal microbiota of weaned pigs subjected to non-sanitary environment

Treatment	PC	NC	BP	ZO	SEM	P-value
Sanitary environment	+	-	-	-	SEM	P-value
Lactobacillus spp.	8.21^ab	7.86^b	8.69^a	8.36^a	0.15	0.029
Bifidobacterium spp.	8.01^b	8.43^ab	8.62^a	8.03^b	0.11	0.021
Clostridium spp.	6.12^b	6.66^a	6.01^b	6.16^b	0.111	0.046
Coliforms	6.71^a	6.82^a	5.11^b	6.41^a	0.182	< 0.001

PC Sanitary environment, NC Non-sanitary environment, BP Non-sanitary environment plus bacteriophage cocktail, ZO Non-sanitary environment plus 2,500 mg/kg ZnO
^acMean values within a row with unlike superscript letters were significantly different (P < 0.05)

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