Effects of feeding mycotoxin-contaminated diets and the use of a yeast cell wall extracts mycotoxin adsorbent on ruminal and fecal microbiota of finishing beef steers

IntroductionThis study evaluated the effects of contamination of the beef cattle diet with mycotoxins and the use of yeast cell wall extract based mycotoxin adsorbent(YCWE) on the ruminal and fecal microbial communities.MethodsEight rumen-cannulated Nellore steers [initial body weight (BW) = 417 ± 4...

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Published in:	Frontiers in Microbiology
Main Authors:	Luis Henrique Cursino Batista, Yury Tatiana Granja-Salcedo, Igor Machado Ferreira, Mailza Gonçalves de Souza, Mateus José Inácio de Abreu, Luiz Fernando Costa e Silva, Anne Koontz, Vaughn Holder, James Eugene Pettigrew, Gustavo Rezende Siqueira, Flávio Dutra de Resende
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2025-10-01
Subjects:	aflatoxins archaea diversity feedlot cattle fusarium mycotoxins mycotoxin binder rumen bacteria diversity
Online Access:	https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2025.1675653/full