Abstract

GUTIERREZ RAMIREZ, Luz Adriana; MONTOYA, Olga Inés  and  VELEZ ZEA, Juliana María. Probiotics: an alternative for cleaner production and a possible replacement of the antibiotics as growth promoters in animal feeding. Rev. P+L [online]. 2013, vol.8, n.1, pp.135-146. ISSN 1909-0455.

Abstract Probiotics have become one of the natural alternatives to replace the use of antibiotics that stimulate growth in animals, without collateral effects and providing a better digestibility, weight gains and a higher alimentary conversion index. Therefore, the objective of this revision is to acknowledge the importance probiotics have as an alternative for antibiotics as growth promoters in animals, based on several studies performed in farm animals. For this, a history journey since the moment antibiotics have been used as additions to animal feeding and its consequences on the generation of multi-resistant to antibiotics bacterial strains has been made, plus a follow up to their residual effect on food, until the banning of the use of such antibiotics in the European Union, in 2006.

Keywords : probiotics; antibiotics; growth in animals.

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