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ReviewVeterinary sciences2025

Probiotics, Prebiotics, and Synbiotics in Pigs and Poultry: A Review of Gut Health, Performance, and Environmental Outcomes.

David Atuahene, Bernard Abeiku Sam, Frank Idan, Shaikh Sumayya Sana, Renáta Knop, Tejas Suthar, Harsh Kumar, Ayaz Mukarram Shaikh

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Review in Veterinary sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

David AtuaheneSchool of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, University of Turin, 10095 Grugliasco, Turin, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-7505-8686
Bernard Abeiku SamDepartment of Animal Sciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA.
Frank IdanDepartment of Animal Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi AK000-AK911, Ghana.ORCID 0000-0002-5438-0331
Shaikh Sumayya SanaFaculty of Agriculture, Food Science & Environmental Management, Institute of Animal Science, University of Debrecen, Böszörményi út 138, 4032 Debrecen, Hungary.ORCID 0009-0004-1319-1325
Renáta KnopFaculty of Agriculture, Food Science & Environmental Management, Institute of Animal Science, University of Debrecen, Böszörményi út 138, 4032 Debrecen, Hungary.ORCID 0000-0002-4863-8287
Tejas SutharIndependent Researcher, Chicago, IL 60616, USA.
Harsh KumarFaculty of Materials Science and Technology, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, 70800 Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0002-5301-484X
Ayaz Mukarram ShaikhFaculty of Agriculture, Food Science, and Environmental Management, Institute of Food Science, University of Debrecen, Böszörményi út 138, 4032 Debrecen, Hungary.ORCID 0000-0002-0410-5286

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The cardinal Physiology of Gut Health in monogastric animals such as swine and poultry is vital. It is critical for digestive efficiency, immune status, and production levels. This system is related not only to the digestion and absorption of nutrients from feed ingredients contributing to growth and feed utilization efficiency but also to having a strategic microbiota that supports immunity and pathogen resistance, as well as metabolic support. Gut disease, for example, bacterial, viral, or parasitic infection, diet, or stress, can reduce nutrient digestion and absorption. They can also suppress the immune system and render patients more prone to disease. These are efficiency degradations and increase veterinary and husbandry costs. In addition, nutrient absorption because of deteriorated gut health can affect the environment in different ways: removal of nutrients through leaching and the release of gases (including CH

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animal welfareenvironmental sustainabilitygut healthmonogastric livestocknutritional efficiency

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PMID41295692
PMCPMC12656940

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