Effect of dietary oridonin supplementation on growth performance, gut health, and immune response of broilers infected with Salmonella pullorum

Table 3 Effect of oridonin on cecal microbiota of broilers challenged with S. pullorum (log CFU)

Items	Diet					SEM²	P-value
Items	CON	SCC	O1	O2	O3	SEM²	P-value
Day 7
Lactobacillus	7.34^a	5.94^c	6.59^b	6.97^ab	7.40^a	0.13	0.001
Salmonella	7.13^b	8.24^a	7.16^b	7.13^b	6.94^b	0.11	0.003
Day 14
Lactobacillus	7.41^a	6.76^b	7.59^a	7.73^a	7.82^a	0.11	0.002
Salmonella	5.64^c	7.57^a	6.37^b	5.72^c	5.27^c	0.17	0.002
Day 21
Lactobacillus	6.91^b	6.76^b	6.83^b	7.12^ab	7.39^a	0.06	0.044
Salmonella	6.76^b	7.67^a	7.13^ab	6.69^b	6.32^b	0.12	0.005

¹CON = nonchallenge control, SCC = Salmonella-challenged control, O1 = S. pullorum challenge fed the basal diet plus 50 mg/kg ORI; O2 = S. pullorum challenge fed the basal diet plus 80 mg/kg ORI, O3 = S. pullorum challenge fed the basal diet plus 100 mg/kg ORI
²SEM = standard error of mean
^3,a,b,cValues within a row not sharing the same superscript are different at P < 0.05; n = 6

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