Abstract: The present invention is to provide a safe antidiarrheal agent and a method for suppressing diarrhea by which an efficient antidiarrheal effect is achieved without using antibiotics or synthetic antibacterial agents that have been conventionally used against infections in livestock and poultry. Antibiotic-resistant pathogenic infections can also be prevented and treated by the present invention. The antidiarrheal agent for livestock and poultry comprising heat-killed bacteria of Enterococcus faecalis EC-12 (FERM ABP-10284) or a treated product thereof as an active ingredient is orally administered to livestock and poultry, particularly to breast-feeding sows and piglets around the weaning period.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide an agent for preventing and treating drug-resistant bacterial infection for livestock/fowls or fish and shellfish, using particular microbial agents as active components, without using synthetic antibacterial substances or antibiotics, and a method for preventing and treating its infection. By using lactic acid bacteria, their dead bacteria or treated substances thereof, or Mygasphaera elsdenii as active components, for an agent for preventing and treating drug-resistant bacterial infection for livestock/fowls or fish and shellfish carrying or being infected by drug-resistant bacteria such as Vancomycin, particularly by using Enterococcus faecalis, Enterococcus faecium as lactic acid bacteria, the above mentioned object was resolved.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a safe antidiarrheal agent and a method for suppressing diarrhea by which an efficient antidiarrheal effect is achieved without using antibiotics or synthetic antibacterial agents that have been conventionally used against infections in livestock and poultry. Antibiotic-resistant pathogenic infections an also invented aid treated by the present invention. The antidiarrheal agent for livestock and poultry comprising heat-killed bacteria of Enterococcus faecalis EC-12 (FERM ABP-10284) or a treated product thereof as an active ingredient is orally administered to livestock and poultry, particularly to breast-feeding sows and piglets around the weaning period.

Abstract: A nipple apparatus 10 comprises a nipple 11, and a nipple holding member 15 for holding the nipple 11. A liquid permeating member 25 is provided in the nipple holding member 15, and cap 17 is also provided at the nipple holding member 15. In the cap 17, a drug container 20 covered with a film 21 is housed. Upon engagement of the cap 17 with the nipple holding member 15, a projection 19 at the nipple holding member 15 sticks the film 21.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide an agent for preventing and treating drug-resistant bacterial infection for livestock/fowls or fish and shellfish, using particular microbial agents as active components, without using synthetic antibacterial substances or antibiotics, and a method for preventing and treating its infection. By using lactic acid bacteria, their dead bacteria or treated substances thereof, or Mygasphaera elsdenii as active components, for an agent for preventing and treating drug-resistant bacterial infection for livestock/fowls or fish and shellfish carrying or being infected by drug-resistant bacteria such as Vancomycin, particularly by using Enterococcus faecalis, Enterococcus faecium as lactic acid bacteria, the above mentioned object was resolved.