Dietary Chitosan Supplementation Increases Microbial Diversity and Attenuates the Severity of Citrobacter rodentium Infection in Mice

• Main Authors: Guiping Guan (Author), Hongbing Wang (Author), Shuai Chen (Author), Gang Liu (Author), Xia Xiong (Author), Bie Tan (Author), Veeramuthu Duraipandiyan (Author), Naif Abdullah Al-Dhabi (Author), Jun Fang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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C57BL/6 mice were tested in order to investigate the effects of dietary chitosan (COS) supplements on intestinal microflora and resistance to Citrobacter rodentium infection. The findings reveal that, after consuming a 300 mg/kg COS diet for 14 days, microflora became more diverse as a result of the...