Abstract:Commercial poultry rearing systems often house successive flocks of birds with limited between-flock cleaning of the poultry houses. Previous research focused on opportunities for successive flocks to become colonised with pathogenic bacterial species. However, there is a paucity of information regarding the transfer and persistence of commensal bacterial between flocks, and if this might confer health benefits on subsequent flocks. The work presented here utilised 16S community sequencing to characterise the … Show more
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