The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of two organic acids (formic acid and propionic acid) and of one mannanoligosaccharide added to the diet to control the intestinal infection caused by Salmonella Enteritidis (SE) in broilers. In this study of 39 days 150 birds were used, with one day of age, of the Cobb lineage, both sexes and free of SE. They were divided in 6 different treatments (T) with 25 birds each, where: T1 (no infection), T2 (organic acids + no infection), T3 (organic acids + mannanoligosaccharide and no infection), T4 (organic acids and infection with SE) T5 (organic acids + mannanoligosaccharide + and infection with SE) T6 (infection with SE). After housing, the chicken litter was instilled on the 4th day with SE and every seven days, five birds from each group were euthanized through cervical dislocation. The necropsy was performed and also the bacteriological exams to detect SE, using the feces collected over the chicken litter of the groups, bacteriological analysis of the cecal tonsils was done as well. On the 18th day only 60% of birds were infected in treatments T4 and T5; on the 25th day, 40% of birds in T4 and 20% in the T5 were infected; on the 32nd day, 100% of tested samples were negative in both treatments. The T6 group was 100% positive until the 32nd day, but on the 39th day, it got reduced in 20% of the number of infected animals. In the experimental conditions of this study, the organic acids and the mannanoligosaccharide added to the diet contributed to control the infection caused by SE.
Salmonella Enteritidis; broiler; organic acids; mannanoligosaccharide
