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Changes in digestive microbiota due to a grain-based SARA challenge

By Jan C. Plaizier, Shucong Li, Anne Mette Danscher, Hooman Derakshani, Pia H. Andersen, Ehsan Khafipour

A study showing how a grain-based diet-induced subacute ruminal acidosis (SARA) challenge impacts the rumen microbiota of lactating dairy cows. The richness, the diversity, as well as the stability of the bacterial communities were reduced for SARA challenged cows. Both ruminal and fecal microbiota were changed, indicating that the rumen but also the hindgut microbiota are affected by SARA challenge. Read
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