Effect of antibiotic withdrawal in feed on chicken gut microbial dynamics, immunity, growth performance and prevalence of foodborne pathogens

• Sanjay Kumar,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Poultry Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States of America

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• Chongxiao Chen,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Poultry Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States of America

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• Nagaraju Indugu,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation New Bolton Center, University of Pennsylvania, Kennett Square, PA, United States of America

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• Gabriela Orosco Werlang,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Preventive Veterinary Medicine Department, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

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• Manpreet Singh,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Poultry Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States of America

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• Woo Kyun Kim,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Poultry Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States of America

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• Harshavardhan Thippareddi

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: harsha.thippareddi@uga.edu

  Affiliation Department of Poultry Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1449-9346

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