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CERTAIN strains of E. coli have been isolated1 from pigs which have died from bowel œdema. Strains of the same organism are involved2 in certain baby pig scours. It has been reported3, in investigations of the intestinal flora of growing/fattening pigs, that the count of E. coli was inversely related to those of lactic acid producing bacteria, chiefly Lactobacillus bifidus. Significant growth increases with pigs were obtained4 with milk inoculated with Lactobacillus sp. when compared with that inoculated with Streptococcus sp.
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BURNETT, G., HANNA, J. Effect of Dietary Calcium Lactate and Lactic Acid on Fæcal Escherichia coli Counts in Pigs. Nature 197, 815 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/197815a0
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