Role of the gastrointestinal microbiota in small animal health and disease

Abstract

There is a large and emerging interest in the role of the gastrointestinal microbiota in health and disease. This paper serves to review the current knowledge and recommendations of the gastrointestinal microbiota in health and gastrointestinal disease. Further, this review evaluates the current literature and suggests guidelines for faecal microbial transplantation, a novel therapy for dysbiosis in veterinary medicine.

Keywords: diarrhea; dysbiosis; fecal microbial transplantation; inflammatory bowel disease; microbiota; probiotics.