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Microbiol."],"abstract":"<jats:p>\n                    <jats:italic>Salmonella enterica<\/jats:italic>\n                    is one of the leading causes of bacterial enteritis in humans with consumption of contaminated poultry products being the leading cause of\n                    <jats:italic>Salmonella<\/jats:italic>\n                    infection.\n                    <jats:italic>Salmonella<\/jats:italic>\n                    is often considered a commensal organism within the poultry gut due to its asymptomatic carriage in adult birds making it difficult to clear by the host immune system once established. Understanding the niche\n                    <jats:italic>Salmonella<\/jats:italic>\n                    occupies will aid in the determination or selection for probiotic organisms with overlapping niche occupation metabolically or spatially for inhibition or exclusion of\n                    <jats:italic>Salmonella<\/jats:italic>\n                    within the poultry gut. Probiotics are an often-utilized treatment for reducing the presence of\n                    <jats:italic>Salmonella<\/jats:italic>\n                    within the poultry gut or as a preventative measure via colonization inhibition through the properties of competitive exclusion. Competitive exclusion is a well-known and effective strategy against\n                    <jats:italic>Salmonella<\/jats:italic>\n                    colonization, especially through the administration of undefined chicken cecal contents, effectively blocking\n                    <jats:italic>Salmonella<\/jats:italic>\n                    from establishing within the poultry gut. However, creation of a defined consortium of bacteria capable of replicating an undefined community\u2019s ability to eliminate or prevent the colonization of\n                    <jats:italic>Salmonella<\/jats:italic>\n                    has yet to be discovered. Advances in computation and sequencing technologies now allow for rapid metabolic comparisons to find organisms with the greatest overlap with metabolic niche of\n                    <jats:italic>Salmonella<\/jats:italic>\n                    paving the way for\n                    <jats:italic>in silico<\/jats:italic>\n                    predictions of defined anti-\n                    <jats:italic>Salmonella<\/jats:italic>\n                    microbial consortia. This review discusses the niche of\n                    <jats:italic>Salmonella<\/jats:italic>\n                    within the poultry gut and strategies for creating, testing, and evaluating microbial consortia for the ability to inhibit pathogens.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3389\/fmicb.2026.1895137","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,15]],"date-time":"2026-09-15T16:47:11Z","timestamp":1789490831000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Bacterial consortium construction for inhibition of Salmonella in chickens"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Dylan","family":"Harris","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Interdepartmental Microbiology Graduate Program, Iowa State University","place":["Ames, IA, United States"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Torey","family":"Looft","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Enteric Pathogens","place":["Ames, IA, United States"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Melha","family":"Mellata","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Interdepartmental Microbiology Graduate Program, Iowa State University","place":["Ames, IA, United States"]},{"name":"Food Science and Human Nutrition, Iowa State University","place":["Ames, IA, United States"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"101696","DOI":"10.1016\/j.psj.2022.101696","article-title":"Alternatives to antibiotics for organic poultry production: types, modes of action and impacts on bird\u2019s health and production","volume":"101","author":"Abd El-Hack","year":"2022","journal-title":"Poult. 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