Efficacy assessment: preventive and therapeutic effectiveness of an experimental bacteriophage drug against salmonellosis in pigs

The prevalence of Salmonella strains that cause invasive forms of infection and the growing rates of antibiotic resistance of individual serotypes of the pathogen raise a number of pressing challenges to the search for new antimicrobial agents for the prevention and treatment of salmonellosis. Creating an effective product that can protect piglets from salmonellosis during a period of high risk of infection during weaning is an urgent task. As a result of the conducted research, the preventive and curative effectiveness of the bacteriophage preparation on laboratory and target animals – piglets of weaning age was studied, and a rational scheme for its use was proposed.