Treating intractable diarrhea in calves and improving intestinal microflora

Diarrhea is common in calves and causes enormous financial losses to the livestock industry worldwide. Antibiotics have been widely used to treat this enteric disease. Yet, improper use of antibiotics for industrial animals not only disturbs their indigenous microbiome—the collection of healthy bacteria stored in their bodies—but also leads to antibiotic-resistant bacteria on farms.


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Source: Phys.org