“…In addition, others studies have shown improvement in performance using probiotic in the diets when chickens were under challenge conditions, such as C. perfringens (Jayaraman et al, ), Escherichia coli (Zhang et al, ), Eimeria sp. (Giannenas et al, ) or simply injection of LPS (Jiang, Schatzmayr, Mohnl, & Applegate, ). However, taking together the results of many different trials, there is not always a beneficial effect of the probiotic to chickens (Huyghebaert et al, ; Willis, Isikhuemhen, & Ibrahim, ).…”