Digestive Fermentation, Antioxidant Status, and Haemato-Biochemical Indices of Growing Rabbits Fed on Diets Supplemented with Ziziphus spina-christi Leaf

Table 3

Effects of dietary ZL supplementation on some ileal microbiota of growing rabbits.

Item	ZL0	ZL10	ZL20	value	±SE
Total bacterial count (×10^6)^1	12.26^a	11.80^b	11.58^b	0.02	0.125
Escherichia coli (×10^4)^1	6.13^a	5.90^ab	5.55^b	0.04	0.121
Clostridium spp. (log CFU/g)	5.21^a	4.72^b	4.18^c	0.001	0.106
Enterococcus (log CFU/g)	6.23	6.16	6.04	0.47	0.101

^{a, b, c}The same row having different superscripts differ significantly (). ZL0: control group, ZL10: 10 g·ZL/kg, and ZL20: 20 g ZL/kg.