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Alternatives to antibiotics—a pipeline portfolio review [PDF]

The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2016
Antibiotics have saved countless lives and enabled the development of modern medicine over the past 70 years. However, it is clear that the success of antibiotics might only have been temporary and we now expect a long-term and perhaps never-ending challenge to find new therapies to combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Czaplewski, Lloyd, Bax, Richard, Clokie, Martha, Dawson, Mike, Fairhead, Heather, Fischetti, Vincent A., Foster, Simon, Gilmore, Brendan F., Hancock, Robert E. W., Harper, David, Henderson, Ian R., Hilpert, Kai, Jones, Brian V., Kadioglu, Aras, Knowles, David, Ólafsdóttir, Sigrídur, Payne, David, Projan, Steve, Shaunak, Sunil, Silverman, Jared, Thomas, Christopher M., Trust, Trevor J., Warn, Peter, Rex, John H.   +23 more
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Alternatives to antibiotic growth promoters for weanling pigs

Ciência Rural, 2015
An experiment was conducted to evaluate the addition of sodium butyrate, plant extracts and nucleotides on weanling pig performance, digestive content pH, organ morphometry, and intestinal epithelial histology. A total of 90 piglets at 21 days of age and
Marconi Bonfim de Santana, Antonio Diego Brandão Melo, Daniel Ribeiro Cruz, Cesar Augusto Pospissil Garbossa, Carla de Andrade, Vinicius de Souza Cantarelli, Leandro Batista Costa   +6 more
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A microencapsulated feed additive containing organic acids and botanicals has a distinct effect on proliferative and metabolic related signaling in the jejunum and ileum of broiler chickens

Frontiers in Physiology, 2023
Well designed and formulated natural feed additives have the potential to provide many of the growth promoting and disease mitigating characteristics of in-feed antibiotics, particularly feed additives that elicit their effects on targeted areas of the ...
Casey N. Johnson, Ryan J. Arsenault, Andrea Piva, Andrea Piva, Ester Grilli, Ester Grilli, Christina L. Swaggerty   +6 more
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Antimicrobial Peptides: A Potent Alternative to Antibiotics [PDF]

Antibiotics, 2021
Antimicrobial peptides constitute one of the most promising alternatives to antibiotics since they could be used to treat bacterial infections, especially those caused by multidrug-resistant pathogens. Many antimicrobial peptides, with various activity spectra and mechanisms of actions, have been described.
Rima, Mariam, Rima, Mohamad, Fajloun, Ziad, Sabatier, Jean-Marc, Bechinger, Burkhard, Naas, Thierry   +5 more
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Engineered Lysins With Customized Lytic Activities Against Enterococci and Staphylococci

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020
The emergence of multidrug-resistant bacteria has made minor bacterial infections incurable with many existing antibiotics. Lysins are phage-encoded peptidoglycan hydrolases that have demonstrated therapeutic potential as a novel class of antimicrobials.
Hana Sakina Binte Muhammad Jai, Linh Chi Dam, Lowella Servito Tay, Jodi Jia Wei Koh, Hooi Linn Loo, Kimberly A. Kline, Kimberly A. Kline, Boon Chong Goh   +7 more
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Eucommia ulmoides Flavones as Potential Alternatives to Antibiotic Growth Promoters in a Low-Protein Diet Improve Growth Performance and Intestinal Health in Weaning Piglets

Animals, 2020
Eucommia ulmoides flavones (EUF) have been demonstrated to attenuate the inflammation and oxidative stress of piglets. This study aimed to test whether EUF could be used as an alternative antibiotic growth promoter to support growth performance and ...
Daixiu Yuan, Jing Wang, Dingfu Xiao, Jiefeng Li, Yanhong Liu, Bie Tan, Yulong Yin   +6 more
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Sustainable poultry education for undergraduate students

Poultry Science
Sustainable poultry production can help address many critical socio- and environmental issues, including food insecurity, climate crisis, and loss of biodiversity.
A.C. Fanatico, A․Kollanoor Johny, A. Upadhyay, S.B. Bramall   +3 more
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Alternatives to antibiotics for farm animals.

CABI Reviews, 2014
Abstract Nowadays, there is an increasing concern for the public health about the consequences from the long and increased use of antibiotics in livestock production. The use of antibiotics in animal feed as growth promoters has been completely banned by the European Union since 2006, based on their possible negative effects on human ...
Papatsiros, V., Katsoulos, Panagiotis-Dimitrios, Koutoulis, K., Karatzia, Maria-Anastasia, Dedousi, A., Christodoulopoulos, G.   +5 more
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Alternatives to antibiotic growth promoters for poultry: a bibliometric analysis of the research journals

Poultry Science
: The need to develop novel alternatives to antibiotics gained prominence following the ban on sub-therapeutic antibiotic applications for livestock growth enhancement.
Samiru S. Wickramasuriya, Jessica Ault, Stephanie Ritchie, Cyril G. Gay, Hyun S. Lillehoj   +4 more
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Probiotics as Antibiotic Alternatives for Human and Animal Applications

Encyclopedia, 2023
Probiotics are live microorganisms recognized as natural candidates to substitute antibiotic substances, usually used to treat bacterial infections responsible for numerous human and animal diseases.
Holy N. Rabetafika, Aurélie Razafindralambo, Bassey Ebenso, Hary L. Razafindralambo   +3 more
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