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Fig. 8 | Gut Pathogens

Fig. 8

From: Host responses to Clostridium perfringens challenge in a chicken model of chronic stress

Fig. 8

Birds co-challenged with C. perfringens and corticosterone exhibited decreased weight gain. Birds were weighed daily from 10 days post-hatch to the study endpoint. Birds were administered 0.2% ethanol drinking water (Cp−St−), challenged with 107 CFU C. perfringens (Cp+St−), administered 20 mg/L CORT (Cp−St+), or received both C. perfringens and CORT challenge (Cp+St+). Treatments commenced in birds at 14-days-of-age, where C. perfringens was administered for 2 days and CORT for 7 days. Vertical lines associated with markers represent standard error of the means (n = 4); markers without vertical lines indicates marker is obscuring the standard error mean or standard error of mean is too small to be represented. Asterisks indicate significant differences (P < 0.050) between the Cp+St+ treatment relative to Cp−St− and Cp+St− treatments

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