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Probiotics and Prebiotics in Animal Health and Food Safety

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Throughout the years the livestock production systems have evolved modifying the natural resistance of animals against the diseases. These systems are characterized by new feeding methods (especially using unnatural feeds such as milk replacers), the intensive farming which limits the maternal contact and uses artificial habitat conditions, the use of animals with better growth parameters, and the use of antimicrobials substances. All these conditions increase the stress on animals, and digestive disorders become more frequent as a result of imbalance in the intestinal microbiota and generate a reduction in the natural resistance against contamination or pathogen colonization (James et al. 1984; Savage 1987; Fuller 1992; Mulder et al. 1997).

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    Laureano Sebastián Frizzo, Marcelo Lisandro Signorini & Marcelo Raúl Rosmini

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Frizzo, L.S., Signorini, M.L., Rosmini, M.R. (2018). Probiotics and Prebiotics for the Health of Cattle. In: Di Gioia, D., Biavati, B. (eds) Probiotics and Prebiotics in Animal Health and Food Safety. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71950-4_6

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