The use of probiotics in the nursery is recommended specially as a...
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Probiotics are much more powerful and valuable when we use them as 'preventive' health promoters and stabilisers of the gut microbiota. Therefore, we must stop thinking of probiotics as direct substitutes of antibiotics in gastrointestinal infection cases, and we must start to combine them with other feeding and/or management strategies with a more holistic approach.
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