Phytogenics and encapsulated sodium butyrate can replace antibiotics as growth promoters for lightly weaned piglets

• Caio Abércio da Silva ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Caio Abércio da Silva, David Vanni Jacob, Alexandre José Ulbrich, Tim Goossens

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: casilva@uel.br

  Affiliation Animal Sciences Department, Center of Agrarian Sciences, State University of Londrina, Londrina, Paraná, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9123-0343

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• Cleandro Pazinato Dias ,

  Roles Investigation

  ¶‡ CPD, MAC, GSR and KLS also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Akei Animal Research, Fartura, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Marco Aurélio Callegari ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision

  ¶‡ CPD, MAC, GSR and KLS also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Akei Animal Research, Fartura, São Paulo, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3758-9907

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• Gabrieli de Souza Romano ,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ CPD, MAC, GSR and KLS also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Akei Animal Research, Fartura, São Paulo, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4117-1880

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• Kelly Lais de Souza ,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision

  ¶‡ CPD, MAC, GSR and KLS also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Akei Animal Research, Fartura, São Paulo, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5671-7287

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• David Vanni Jacob ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Caio Abércio da Silva, David Vanni Jacob, Alexandre José Ulbrich, Tim Goossens

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration

  Affiliation Nutriad Animal Nutrition Ltda., Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Alexandre José Ulbrich ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Caio Abércio da Silva, David Vanni Jacob, Alexandre José Ulbrich, Tim Goossens

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition

  Affiliation Nutriad Animal Nutrition Ltda., Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Tim Goossens

  Contributed equally to this work with: Caio Abércio da Silva, David Vanni Jacob, Alexandre José Ulbrich, Tim Goossens

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

  Affiliation Nutriad Animal Nutrition Ltda., Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

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