Method for growth promotion of animals and powder compositions containing killed microbial cells of bacteria belonging to genus clostridium
AssigneesNippon Kayaku Kabushiki Kaisha, Miyarisan Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
InventorsKazumi Kono, Yasuyuki Mizukai, Kazuo Mizuochi, Takeshi Asano, Takaichi Murayama, Toshio Kitajo, Mamoru Tanaka
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Abstract
The invention provides a method for the growth promotion of animals, comprising orally administering into animals killed microbial cells of bacteria belonging to the genus Clostridium, and also provides a powder composition, which comprises as essential ingredients killed microbial vegetative cells of bacteria belonging to the genus Clostridium, together with saccharides and/or starches.
Claims6
A method of promoting growth in an animal which comprises orally administering to the animal killed microbial cells of bacteria belonging to Clostridium butyricum in an amount effective to promote growth of the animal.
A method according to claim 5, wherein the number of the killed microbial cells in the feed is at least 10.sup.4 per g of feed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.