A Pilot Study on the Effect of Thyme Microemulsion Compared with Antibiotic as Treatment of Salmonella Enteritidis in Broiler

Table 4

Results of effect of total Salmonella Enteritidis count in in vivo challenge.

Groups	Count of Salmonella Enteritidis from cecum		Count of Salmonella Enteritidis from fecal dropping
	2nd week PI (postinoculation) (age of chicken 35 days)	4th week PI (postinoculation) (age of chicken 49 days)	3rd week PI (postinoculation) (age of chicken 42 days)	4th week PI (postinoculation) (age of chicken 49 days)
GP1	Over 300 × 10^2	Over 300 × 10^2	Over 300 × 10^2	Over 300 × 10^2
GP2	Over 300 × 10^2	Over 300 × 10^2	Over 300 × 10^2	Over 300 × 10^2
GP3	Over 300 × 10^2	Over 300 × 10^2	Over 300 × 10^2	Over 300 × 10^2
GP4	0	0	0	0
GP5	10 × 10^2	Less than 1 × 10^1	19 × 10^2	5 × 10^2
GP6	0	0	0	0
GP8	Over 300 × 10^2	18 × 10^2	Over 300 × 10^2	20 × 10^2
GP9	Over 300 × 10^2	10 × 10^2	Over 300 × 10^2	25 × 10^2
GP11	12 × 10^2	8 × 10^2	Over 300 × 10^2	15 × 10^2
GP12	0	0	8× 10^2	0