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Pérez-Calvo, Estefania, Wicaksono, Alfian, Canet, Estel, Daulton, Emma, Ens, Waldemar, Hoeller, Ulrich, Verlhac, Viviane, Celi, Pietro and Covington, James A. (2019) The measurement of volatile organic compounds in faeces of piglets as a tool to assess gastrointestinal functionality. Biosystems Engineering, 184 . pp. 122-129. doi:10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2019.06.005
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2019.06....
Abstract
There is an increasing interest in developing innovative means to monitor animal health through precision farming. As part of this drive, we have targeted digestive health and in particular the microbiota. In this study, we investigated the effect of different dietary interventions in piglets, feeding these piglets with one of two different feeds (high protein and low protein). We then evaluated its effects by measuring the volatile organic compounds (VOC) that emanated from these faecal samples using various forms of Ion Mobility Spectrometry. Piglets were monitored for 19 days, with faecal samples collected on days 6, 12 and 19, providing a total of 69 samples. The statistical analysis attempted to separate the samples using either dietary intervention or faecal score. First, the faecal score was investigated using a value based on a visual faecal scoring system, from 0 to 3, with 0 being normal and 3 having diarrhoea. Then the VOCs were analysed in regard to dietary intervention (high vs low protein). Results indicated that our approach was able to separate the dietary intervention (area under the curve (AUC) 0.81) using VOC data. Furthermore, we were able to separate samples based on faecal score (AUC between 0.71 and 1, with six different comparisons undertaken). We believe that faeces volatiles hold potential as a future means to monitor animal health.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QD Chemistry Q Science > QP Physiology S Agriculture > SF Animal culture |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science > Engineering | |||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Animal nutrition, Swine -- Nutrition, Gastrointestinal system -- Microbiology, Volatile organic compounds, Ion mobility spectroscopy, Feces -- Microbiology | |||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Biosystems Engineering | |||||||||
| Publisher: | Elsevier Ltd. | |||||||||
| ISSN: | 1537-5110 | |||||||||
| Official Date: | August 2019 | |||||||||
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| Volume: | 184 | |||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 122-129 | |||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2019.06.005 | |||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | |||||||||
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