PROBIOTICS: BENEFITS AND EFFICIENCY IN POULTRY PRODUCTIONABSTRACT
Several aspects related to the development and use of probiotics are presented in this study. The concepts, action mechanisms, efficiency in the chicken rate of growth with probiotics, control of enteric pathogens are approached with the purpose of elucidating the role of these bacteria in contrai and proliferation of the enteric microbiota and its relationship with the host and human being. Some of the main and/or newest approaches are discussed in this review.
KEY WORDS:
Probiotics; poultry production; poultry nutrition; chicken; poultry health