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The fecal bacterial microbiota of healthy and sick newborn foals.

Diego E GómezDavid M WongJennifer MacNicolKatarzyna Dembek
Published in: Journal of veterinary internal medicine (2022)
Higher fecal microbiota diversity in sick than healthy foals might suggest a high exposure to environmental microorganisms or an unstable colonic microbiota. The presence of microorganisms causing bacteremia in foals in a high relative abundance in the feces of foals suggests the intestine might play an essential role in the causation of bacteremia in foals.
Keyphrases
  • gram negative
  • risk assessment
  • multidrug resistant
  • human health
  • microbial community
  • life cycle