Table 1 Effects of bacteriophage on turbinate score of weanling piglets challenged with Bordetella bronchiseptica (BBC).

From: Anti-Bordetella bronchiseptica effects of targeted bacteriophages via microbiome and metabolic mediated mechanisms

Treatment1

NC

Challenge (Bordetella bronchiseptica)

SEM2

p-value

PC

BF

BN

AT

Turbinate score

 Scroll (0–16)

0.83c

5.50a

2.83b

1.50bc

1.00c

0.36

< 0.001

 Septal (0–2)

0.00b

0.67a

0.33ab

0.00b

0.00b

0.28

0.015

 Total (0–18)

0.83c

6.17a

3.17b

1.50bc

1.00c

0.42

< 0.001

  1. 1NC, control group; PC, with BBC; BF, bacteriophage in feed (108 pfu /kg diet) + BBC; BN, bacteriophage nasal spray (2 × 107 pfu) + BBC; AT, 1 g florfenicol/kg + BBC.
  2. 2SEM, standard error of means.
  3. a–cmeans with different superscripts in the same row differ significantly (p < 0.05).
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