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The effect of dietary carbohydrates with different digestibility on the populations of Oesophagostomum dentatum in the intestinal tract of pigs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2001

S. PETKEVIČIUS ,
K. E. BACH KNUDSEN ,
P. NANSEN  and
K. D. MURRELL
S. PETKEVIČIUS
Affiliation:
Danish Centre for Experimental Parasitology, Department of Veterinary Microbiology, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Ridebanevej 3, DK-1870 Frederiksberg C, Denmark Lithuanian Veterinary Institute, LT-4230 Kaišiadorys, Lithuania
K. E. BACH KNUDSEN
Affiliation:
Department of Animal Nutrition and Physiology, Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Research Centre Foulum, P.O. Box 50, DK-8830 Tjele, Denmark
P. NANSEN
Affiliation:
Danish Centre for Experimental Parasitology, Department of Veterinary Microbiology, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Ridebanevej 3, DK-1870 Frederiksberg C, Denmark
K. D. MURRELL
Affiliation:
Danish Centre for Experimental Parasitology, Department of Veterinary Microbiology, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Ridebanevej 3, DK-1870 Frederiksberg C, Denmark
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Abstract

An experiment was undertaken to study the effect of dietary carbohydrates with different digestibility on the populations of Oesophagostomum dentatum in the intestinal tract of pigs. Sixty-four worm-free pigs from a specific pathogen-free farm were randomly divided into 8 equal groups. The animals in 4 groups were assigned to a diet with partially undegradable carbohydrates (diet 1), while the pigs in the 4 remaining groups were given a diet with fermentable carbohydrates (diet 2). Diet 1 was comprised of barley flour, oat husk meal, soybean meal, vitamins and minerals and diet 2 of barley flour, inulin and sugar beet fibre, soybean meal, vitamins and minerals. The pigs in 6 of the groups (n = 48) were inoculated with 6000 infective larvae of O. dentatum. To determine O. dentatum populations at the early stage of infection, 16 pigs were slaughtered 3 weeks p.i., while the remaining 4 groups continued on the diets for a further 9 weeks after which they were slaughtered. In a diet cross-over experiment 6 weeks after inoculation, 8 pigs changed from diet 1 to diet 2 (diet 1>diet 2), and 8 pigs from diet 2 to diet 1 (diet 2>diet 1). The results showed that partially undegradable carbohydrates provided favourable conditions not only for parasite establishment and sustainability, but also for already established O. dentatum infection while, in contrast, the diet composed of highly degradable carbohydrates decreased worm establishment, size and female fecundity. The implications for pastured pigs or pigs fed different complex carbohydrate diets is discussed.

Keywords

Oesophagostomum dentatumcarbohydratespigsnutrition
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Parasitology , Volume 123 , Issue 3 , March 2001 , pp. 315 - 324
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© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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