Dietary Enterococcus faecium NCIMB 10415 and zinc oxide stimulate immune reactions to trivalent influenza vaccination in pigs but do not affect virological response upon challenge infection.

Swine influenza viruses (SIV) regularly cause significant disease in pigs worldwide. Since there is no causative treatment of SIV, we tested if probiotic Enterococcus (E.) faecium NCIMB 10415 or zinc (Zn) oxide as feed supplements provide beneficial effects upon SIV infection in piglets. Seventy-two...

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Main Authors: Zhenya Wang, Michael Burwinkel, Weidong Chai, Elke Lange, Ulrike Blohm, Angele Breithaupt, Bernd Hoffmann, Sven Twardziok, Juliane Rieger, Pawel Janczyk, Robert Pieper, Nikolaus Osterrieder
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24489827/?tool=EBI