During the latest years human enteric diseases were associated to the ingestion of poultry products contaminated by bacteria, suggesting that foods produced with meat from contaminated animals could transport bacteria to humans. These observations, and the restrictions imposed by the market to the use of antimicrobials in meat production, increased the interest on probiotics all around the world. This review shows the advances and the current situation of probiotics in the poultry industry.
probiotics; poultry; enteric pathogens; broilers; antimicrobials
