Bacterial competition as a means of preventing neonatal diarrhea in pigs

Abstract

Baby pigs orally inoculated with a porcine strain of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (K88+, Ent+) showed signs of depression, severe diarrhea, and, in some instances, death. Few, if any signs of illness occurred if baby pigs were first inoculated with a K88 possessing non enterotoxin producing strain of E. coli.