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Use of Virginiamycin in Cattle Feeding

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Virginiamycin is a growth promoter, antibiotic, non-ionophore additive produced by a specific strain of Streptomyces virginiae, isolated in Belgium in 1954 (De Somer and Van Dijck 1955). The antimicrobial action of virginiamycin is due to a natural combination of two components, factors M and S that together are primarily active against Gram-positive bacteria.

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    Davi Brito de Araújo, Lucas F. S. P. Barbosa, Cesar A. A. Borges, Richard Coulter, Enrico Boselli, Danilo V. Grandini, Milton A. Gorocica & Francis Gosselé

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de Araújo, D.B. et al. (2016). Use of Virginiamycin in Cattle Feeding. In: Millen, D., De Beni Arrigoni, M., Lauritano Pacheco, R. (eds) Rumenology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30533-2_7

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