3rd International Poultry Meat Congress

O 46 Intestinal Microbiome of Broilers and It’s Interaction with Health
and Disease Status of the Host
K. Serdar Diker, İnci Başak Kaya
Ankara University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ankara, Turkey
Abstract
In Turkey, Salmonella infections are the most observed infections of poultry industry and
also it is the most important disease fort the public health and economical loss. Antibiotic
usage is the most important treatment method for struggling the disease. Nevertheless the
bacterial resistance to antibiotics leads to alternative treatment regimens. Considering the
relations between microorganisms recently the most attractive word microbiome seems to gets
importance. The technological improvements in biological areas leads to performing laborious
metagenomic analysis in very short time with a little cost and high accuracy. With this extent
the new sequencing systems help us to correlate microbial spectrum between animals and
humans and also between the diseases. Also with these systems there is no need to make any
amplifications and conventional culture techniques for determining the microorganismal taxon.
This feature gives us the opportunity for determining the microbiome of animal, human, food
and environment. With the known microbiota the colonization of bacteria such as Salmonella
and Clostridium perfringens in poultry could be inhibited and the need to antibiotic usage would
be decreased.
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