Ensuring gut health is crucial in veterinary practice, especially concerning the interaction between pathogens such as Clostridium and Salmonella and the microbiome. A healthy gut not only supports animals in reaching their genetic potential by optimizing nutrient breakdown and assimilation but also maintains a robust mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) immune response to defend against pathogens, thereby ensuring overall health. The global challenge of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses significant threats to human and animal health. The irrational use of antimicrobial growth promoters in veterinary settings exacerbates AMR, rendering standard treatments ineffective, leading to persistent infections and the spread of resistant pathogens. Focusing on Clostridium and Salmonella, this Research Topic aims to explore the link between human and animal health. It highlights the role of nutritional strategies in stabilizing the microbiome to combat AMR, promoting benefits across both veterinary practice and public health.
This research topic aims to investigate nutritional strategies to mitigate the development of antimicrobial resistance in veterinary practice, particularly against Clostridium and Salmonella. The primary objectives include understanding the synergistic effects of dietary components on gut health and microbiota modulation amid disease conditions, and evaluating the role of prebiotics and probiotics in enhancing gut health and reducing pathogen load. Additionally, the research will explore dietary interventions that improve gut barrier function as alternatives to antibiotics and assess the potential of nutraceuticals and herbal therapeutics as safe dietary additives against common gut pathogens and diseases such as necrotic enteritis.
To gather further insights into the complex interactions between gut microbiota, nutritional strategies, and pathogen resistance mechanisms, we welcome articles addressing, but not limited to, the following themes:
- Nutritional strategies to mitigate AMR development in veterinary practice, particularly against Clostridium and Salmonella.
- Synergistic effects of dietary components on gut health and microbiota modulation amid disease conditions.
- The role of prebiotics and probiotics in enhancing gut health and reducing pathogen load.
- Dietary interventions improving gut barrier function as alternatives to antibiotics.
- Evaluating nutraceuticals and herbal therapeutics as safe dietary additives against common gut pathogens and diseases such as necrotic enteritis.
- Potential of natural antimicrobial agents found in foods to control gut pathogens.
- Complex interactions between gut microbiota, nutritional strategies, and pathogen resistance mechanisms.
- Long-term effects of antibiotic-free nutritional programs on gut health focusing on Clostridium perfringens and Salmonella prevalence and behavior.
Keywords:
Gut Health, one health, nutritional strategies, antimicrobial resistance, Veterinary Practice, Clostridium Salmonella, Probiotics, Prebiotics, Microbiome, Nutraceuticals, Herbal Therapeutics
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
Ensuring gut health is crucial in veterinary practice, especially concerning the interaction between pathogens such as Clostridium and Salmonella and the microbiome. A healthy gut not only supports animals in reaching their genetic potential by optimizing nutrient breakdown and assimilation but also maintains a robust mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) immune response to defend against pathogens, thereby ensuring overall health. The global challenge of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses significant threats to human and animal health. The irrational use of antimicrobial growth promoters in veterinary settings exacerbates AMR, rendering standard treatments ineffective, leading to persistent infections and the spread of resistant pathogens. Focusing on Clostridium and Salmonella, this Research Topic aims to explore the link between human and animal health. It highlights the role of nutritional strategies in stabilizing the microbiome to combat AMR, promoting benefits across both veterinary practice and public health.
This research topic aims to investigate nutritional strategies to mitigate the development of antimicrobial resistance in veterinary practice, particularly against Clostridium and Salmonella. The primary objectives include understanding the synergistic effects of dietary components on gut health and microbiota modulation amid disease conditions, and evaluating the role of prebiotics and probiotics in enhancing gut health and reducing pathogen load. Additionally, the research will explore dietary interventions that improve gut barrier function as alternatives to antibiotics and assess the potential of nutraceuticals and herbal therapeutics as safe dietary additives against common gut pathogens and diseases such as necrotic enteritis.
To gather further insights into the complex interactions between gut microbiota, nutritional strategies, and pathogen resistance mechanisms, we welcome articles addressing, but not limited to, the following themes:
- Nutritional strategies to mitigate AMR development in veterinary practice, particularly against Clostridium and Salmonella.
- Synergistic effects of dietary components on gut health and microbiota modulation amid disease conditions.
- The role of prebiotics and probiotics in enhancing gut health and reducing pathogen load.
- Dietary interventions improving gut barrier function as alternatives to antibiotics.
- Evaluating nutraceuticals and herbal therapeutics as safe dietary additives against common gut pathogens and diseases such as necrotic enteritis.
- Potential of natural antimicrobial agents found in foods to control gut pathogens.
- Complex interactions between gut microbiota, nutritional strategies, and pathogen resistance mechanisms.
- Long-term effects of antibiotic-free nutritional programs on gut health focusing on Clostridium perfringens and Salmonella prevalence and behavior.
Keywords:
Gut Health, one health, nutritional strategies, antimicrobial resistance, Veterinary Practice, Clostridium Salmonella, Probiotics, Prebiotics, Microbiome, Nutraceuticals, Herbal Therapeutics
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.