Probiotic Archives - Manitoba Co-operator

Newborn babies’ first gut bacteria may have effect on ability to fight disease

This could eventually allow doctors to establish beneficial bacteria right after birth

By Bev Betkowski December 5, 2018

New research showing that the first bacteria introduced into the gut have a lasting impact may one day allow science to adjust microbiomes — the one-of-a-kind microbial communities that live in our gastrointestinal tracts — to help ward off serious chronic diseases. Findings by U of A microbial ecologist Jens Walter and his colleagues suggest

Hogs, Livestock

A combination of new additives and husbandry can replace antibiotics

Animal Health: If Scandinavian pork producers can go antibiotic free, so can Canadians, says U of M animal scientist

By Shannon VanRaes March 30, 2015

If you think you can’t raise a healthy pig and turn a profit without the aid of antibiotics, think again. While there is no silver bullet lying in wait to replace antibiotic growth promotants, a thoughtful mix of improved husbandry and antibiotic alternatives can prove as effective, University of Manitoba animal science professor, Martin Nyachoti

News

Probiotics, prebiotics and horses

By Carol Shwetz February 18, 2014

When supplements or products containing live micro-organisms are fed to horses the products are called probiotics, and Latin names like Lactobacillus, Acidophillus, Entercoccus, Bifidobacterium, and Saccaromyces will appear on the product’s ingredients label. While prebiotics have a similar intention to probiotics they do not contain the actual micro-organisms, rather substances which have been extracted from

Livestock

Probiotics could serve as alternative to antibiotics in pig feed

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 20, 2013

German researchers have found that piglets fed probiotic Enterococcus faecium showed reduced numbers of potentially pathogenic Escherichia coli strains in their intestines, the American Society for Microbiology says in a release. Researchers were looking for alternatives to antibiotics for reducing pathogens in the intestines of young pigs following the EU’s ban on using antibiotics as

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Newborn babies’ first gut bacteria may have effect on ability to fight disease

A combination of new additives and husbandry can replace antibiotics

Probiotics, prebiotics and horses

Probiotics could serve as alternative to antibiotics in pig feed

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