A cross-sectional study of the nasal and fecal microbiota of sows from different health status within six commercial swine farms

Background Cull sows are a unique population on swine farms, often representing poor producing or compromised animals, and even though recent studies have reported that the microbiome is associated with susceptibility to diseases, the microbiome of the cull sow population has not been explored. The...

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Published in:PeerJ
Main Authors: Andreia G. Arruda, Loic Deblais, Vanessa L. Hale, Christopher Madden, Monique Pairis-Garcia, Vishal Srivastava, Dipak Kathayat, Anand Kumar, Gireesh Rajashekara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2021-09-01
Subjects:
Swine
Swine microbiota
Nasal and fecal microbiota
Cull sows
Swine health
Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/12120.pdf

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