Effect of dietary non-digestible carbohydrates on viable salmonella counts in organs of rats two days after oral infection of the animals
| Non-digestible carbohydrate | Salmonella counts in organ (log10 CFU/g) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Mesenteric lymph nodes | Spleen | Liver | |
| Results are expressed as means (SEM) (n=8 per group). | |||
| *Denotes that the indicated group is significantly different from the cellulose group (p<0.05). | |||
| CFU, colony forming units; FOS, fructo-oligosaccharides. | |||
| Cellulose | 5.37 (0.56) | 2.73 (0.15) | 1.55 (0.27) |
| FOS | 6.15 (0.18) | 3.11 (0.09)* | 2.32 (0.26)* |
| Lactulose | 6.05 (0.18) | 2.89 (0.32) | 2.89 (0.38)* |