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Effects of thymol and carvacrol supplementation on intestinal integrity and immune responses of broiler chickens challenged with Clostridium perfringens

BACKGROUND: Necrotic enteritis caused by Clostridium perfringens infection leads to serious economic losses in the global poultry production. In the present study, we investigated the protective effects of essential oils (EO, which contained 25 % thymol and 25 % carvacrol as active components) suppl...

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Autores principales: Du, Encun, Wang, Weiwei, Gan, Liping, Li, Zhui, Guo, Shuangshuang, Guo, Yuming
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4802587/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27006768
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40104-016-0079-7