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Chicken cecal bacterial counts

Range	Table - link
Organism	bacteria
Reference	Salanitro JP, Fairchilds IG, Zgornicki YD. Isolation, culture characteristics, and identification of anaerobic bacteria from the chicken cecum. Appl Microbiol. 1974 Apr27(4):678-87. p.682 table 4PubMed ID4596749
Comments	"To test the possibility that chicken cecal extract might replace rumen fluid for the growth of cecal bacteria, M98-5 (minus rumen fluid) was supplemented with 5 to 30% cecal extract. No increase in colony counts was noted (Table 4)."
Entered by	Uri M
ID	108552