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Microbial Community Composition of the Ileum and Cecum of Broiler Chickens as Revealed by Molecular and Culture-Based Techniques L. Bjerrum,*1 R. M. Engberg,† T. D. Leser,‡ B. B. Jensen,† K. Finster,§ and K. Pedersen* ˚ rhus N; †Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences, *Danish Institute for Food and Veterinary Research, DK-8200 A Research Center Foulum, DK-8830 Tjele; ‡Chr. Hansen A/S, DK-2970 Hoersholm; and §University of Aarhus, Institute of Biological Sciences, Department of Microbiology, DK-8000 Aarhus C. ABSTRACT The microbial communities of the ileum and cecum of broiler chickens from a conventional and an organic farm were investigated using conventional culture techniques as well as cloning and sequencing of 16S rRNA genes. Eighty-five percent of the 557 cloned sequences were
