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- Title
Alternative Strategies for Keeping Animals Healthy.
- Authors
Gay, Cyril G.
- Abstract
The article presents alternative strategies to prevent and control diseases in animals. Scientists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) explored novel technologies to help keep animals healthy and found a patented method of using complex carbohydrates as prebiotics to promote gut health, as well as a method to introduce mushroom extract, lecitin, to poultry for the improvement of immunity against parasitic diseases.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ANIMAL diseases; ANIMAL health; PREBIOTICS; COMPLEX carbohydrate diet; PARASITIC diseases; UNITED States. Dept. of Agriculture; UNITED States. Agricultural Research Service; PREVENTION
- Publication
Agricultural Research, 2012, Vol 60, Issue 5, p2
- ISSN
0002-161X
- Publication type
Article