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Reference | Increased amount of Bifidobacterium thermacidophilum and Megasphaera elsdenii in the colonic microbiota of pigs fed a swine dysentery preventive diet containing chicory roots and sweet lupine. Mølbak L, Thomsen LE, Jensen TK, Bach Knudsen KE, Boye M. Journal of applied microbiology. 2007. |
Abstract | To investigate which specific bacterial species that were stimulated or inhibited in the proximal colon of pigs when a fructan-rich diet was compared with a diet that contained resistant carbohydrates. The study focussed especially on Bifidobacterial species by using a noncultureable approach. |
Pubmed ID | 17953596 |