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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2014
Microbios, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Joseph F. Flint, Ithaca, NY (US);
Matthew Ryan Garner, Amarillo, TX (US);
MICROBIOS, INC., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Composition including a pathogen inhibiting bacterial probiotic and a fructooligosaccharide (FOS) prebiotic particularly suited as a feed additive administered to juvenile animals such as calves that promotes animal health and growth, reduces scours and mortality, and can act as an antibiotic substitute. The additive inhibits pathogen growth resulting in lower pathogen load within the animal and pathogen sheading. The prebiotic-probiotic additive includes bacteria that inhibitO157:H7 growth by as much as 93% andgrowth by as much as 97%, as well as the Big-Sixstrains. The probiotic is constituted of various combinations of four pathogen-inhibiting bacteria:; and