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Dietary supplementation with soluble plantain non-starch polysaccharides inhibits intestinal invasion of salmonella typhimurium in the chicken (2014)
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Parsons, B. N., Wigley, P., Simpson, H., Williams, J. M., Humphrey, S., Salisbury, A.-M., Watson, A. J. M., Fry, S. C., O'Brien, D., Roberts, C. L., O'Kennedy, N., Keita, A. V., Soderholm, J. D., Rhodes, J. M., & Campbell, B. J. (2014). Dietary supplementation with soluble plantain non-starch polysaccharides inhibits intestinal invasion of salmonella typhimurium in the chicken. PLoS ONE, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0087658

Soluble fibres (non-starch polysaccharides, NSP) from edible plants but particularly plantain banana (Musa spp.), have been shown in vitro and ex vivo to prevent various enteric pathogens from adhering to, or translocating across, the human intestina... Read More about Dietary supplementation with soluble plantain non-starch polysaccharides inhibits intestinal invasion of salmonella typhimurium in the chicken.