“…Poor sanitary and hygienic situations occur when the pens are not cleaned and disinfected prior to placement and during the rearing period, because of negligent stockmanship and unremoved leftover feed, among others. (Heo et al, 2018;Mizumachi et al, 2009;Pieper et al, 2011;Suo et al, 2012) L. fermentum I5007 (Liu et al, 2014) L. casei GG (Roselli et al, 2005) L. acidophilus C3, NCDC-15 (Dowarah, Verma, et al, 2017a;Giang et al, 2011) L. brevis ATCC 8287, 1E1 (Gebert et al, 2011;Lähteinen et al, 2014) L (Brown et al, 1997;Estrada et al, 2001) B. animalis CSCC 1941, MB5 (Bird et al, 2009;Roselli et al, 2005 (Priori et al, 2015) GRAS: Generally regarded as safe, GIT: Gastrointestinal tract, LAB: Lactic acid bacteria Poor hygiene allows the proliferation of pathogenic microorganisms in the piglets' environment, which terminally find their way into the gut via the faecal-oral pathway. Post-weaning feeding and feeding regimes have been implicated in PWD, and the sudden change from sow milk to a solid ration, as occurs during weaning, has been demonstrated to reduce villus height while increasing crypt depths in the ileum, leading to diarrhoea (Dong & Pluske, 2007).…”