Ensuring gut health under every situation

There is a growing need to reduce antibiotic use globally. One key success factor is to ensure a healthy gut – which is the first line of defence of the animals – with a multilevel approach. Whenever the barrier function is compromised, opportunistic bacteria can cross the epithelial layer and reach the underlying lamina propria. Such bacteria are classically facultative anaerobes belonging to the gram-negative proteobacteria phylum, e.g. Escherichia or Salmonella spp or to the gram-positiv