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AssigneeInternational N&H Denmark Aps
InventorsMarion Bernardeau, Qiong Cheng, Raymond E. Jackson, Jian Ping Lai, Yang-Xiang Li, Wenting Li, Charlotte Horsmans Poulsen, Yixin Ren, Luan Tao, Qiong Wang, Derek Joseph Zimmer, Susan Hennessey
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Provided herein, inter alia, are compositions comprising oxygen tolerant strains of Megasphaera elsdenii and methods of making and using the same to promote improvement of one or more metrics in an animal, such as increased bodyweight/carcass gain, increased feed intake, decreased feed conversion ratio (FCR), decreased medical costs, decreased transition period, decrease use of antibiotics, and reduced mortality.
A feed additive composition comprising a direct fed microbial (DFM) comprising at least one biologically pure strain of an oxygen tolerant Megasphaera elsdenii (M. elsdenii), wherein the oxygen tolerant M. elsdenii comprises at least one mutation (a) in a gene encoding a transcriptional regulator PerR comprising SEQ ID NO:
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