title: Protection of chicks against Salmonella infection with a mixture of pure cultures of intestinal bacteria.
abstract: A mixture of 28 pure cultures was prepared from the organisms isolated from native gut microflora (fecal and cecal contents) of adult Salmonella-free birds. This mixture was orally administered to 1-day-old chicks and examined for its efficacy against challenge with 10(5) colony-forming units of nalidixic-acid-resistant Salmonella typhimurium in six consecutive trials during a 20-month period. The efficacy of the mixture, which was prepared for each trial from stored isolates, progressively decreased, while that from stored fecal content remained unimpaired. Twenty-three cultures in the mixture were tentatively identified as belonging to seven different genera; the genus of the five other cultures remained unknown.
authors.affiliation: Bureau of Microbial Hazards, Health Protection Branch, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: T M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Gleeson
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Stavric
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Blanchfield
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D001431:Bacteriological Techniques; D002432:Cecum / Q000276:immunology / Q000382:microbiology*; D002645:Chickens / Q000276:immunology* / Q000382:microbiology; D015169:Colony Count, Microbial; D012481:Salmonella Infections, Animal / Q000276:immunology*