AUTHOR=Lin Jun TITLE=Antibiotic growth promoters enhance animal production by targeting intestinal bile salt hydrolase and its producers JOURNAL=Frontiers in Microbiology VOLUME=5 YEAR=2014 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/microbiology/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2014.00033 DOI=10.3389/fmicb.2014.00033 ISSN=1664-302X ABSTRACT=
The growth-promoting effect of antibiotic growth promoters (AGPs) was correlated with the decreased activity of bile salt hydrolase (BSH), an intestinal bacteria-produced enzyme that exerts negative impact on host fat digestion and utilization. Consistent with this finding, independent chicken studies have demonstrated that AGP usage significantly reduced population of