Cecal microbiota profile of chicken infected by Brachyspira pilosicoli and treated by tiamulin. Cecal chicken microbiota

This study aimed at understanding the impact of infection by a pathogen Brachyspira pilosicoli and its treatment by an antibiotic tiamluin on the composition of the cecal microbiota.This study contains data for three groups of chickens samples at three time points. A control group that received no treatment. An infected group that was infected by B. pilosicoli via oral gavage at the beginning of the study. A third group infected by B. pilosicoli and then treated one week later with an antibiotic (tiamulin). Cecal content were collected at 3 post-mortem time (T1) just after the end of the infection period (day 5); (T2) samples collected at the end of the antibiotic treatment period (day 12); (T3) samples collected 2 weeks after the end of the antibiotic treatment period.