Dietary supplemental coated essential oils and organic acids mixture improves growth performance and gut health along with reduces Salmonella load of broiler chickens infected with Salmonella Enteritidis

Table 8 Effect of dietary coated essential oils and organic acids mixture (EOA) on anti-Salmonella specific IgG and IgA of broiler chickens (n = 6)

Items	Groups					SEM¹	P-value
Items	A	B	BL	BM	BH	SEM¹	P1²	Linear³	Quadratic⁴
Serum anti-Salmonella IgG (OD₄₅₀)
3 DPI	2.59^b	2.62^b	2.59^b	2.78^a	2.72^ab	0.023	0.017	0.038	0.302
10 DPI	2.80	2.80	2.77	2.72	2.73	0.014	0.338	0.142	0.923
Intestinal anti-Salmonella IgA (OD₄₅₀)
3 DPI	2.76^ab	2.77^ab	2.68^b	2.75^ab	2.82^a	0.015	0.037	0.329	0.002
10 DPI	2.75	2.80	2.78	2.71	2.75	0.014	0.286	0.138	0.875

¹SEM Standard error of the mean
²P1-value represent the difference comparison between group A, B, BL, BM and BH groups
³Linear regression analysis among B, BL, BM and BH groups
⁴Quadratic curve analysis among B, BL, BM and BH groups
^a,bMeans within the same row without a common superscript differ significantly (P < 0.05)
DPI: days post infection, A: broiler chickens with basal diet and no infection, B: broiler chickens with basal diet and SE infection, BL: broiler chickens with basal diet supplemented with 300 mg/kg EOA and SE infection, BM: broiler chickens with basal diet supplemented with 500 mg/kg EOA and SE infection, BH: broiler chickens with basal diet supplemented with 800 mg/kg EOA and SE infection. EOA: coated essential oils and organic acids mixture

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