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Production of antimicrobial substances by strains of Lactobacillus genus

TURKOVÁ, K. MAVRIČ, A. NOVAK, R. MATIJAŠIĆ, B.B. ŠPANOVÁ, A.

Original Title

Type

abstract

Language

English

Original Abstract

Strains of Lactobacillus genus are used in the dairy industry as probiotics. Probiotic bacteria are often selected for use on the basis of their ability to adhere to the intestinal mucosa, acid and bile stability, and one of the proposed beneficial effects is the inhibition of the growth of pathogenic bacteria. The inhibition can be caused by production of antimicrobial substances such as acids or bacteriocins. All strains were tested for production of antimicrobial substances using the agar spot-test and the agar diffusion test. Strains of Lactobacillus (11 strains), Clostridium (5 strains), Staphylococcus (1 strain), Salmonella (2 strains), Enterococcus (2 strains), and E. coli (3 strains) acquired from the Institute of Dairy Science and Probiotics, University of Ljubljana, Domžale, Slovenia, were used as indicator strains.

Keywords

Lactobacillus; antimicrobial activity; agar-spot test; bacteriocin; Caco-2 cells

Authors

TURKOVÁ, K.; MAVRIČ, A.; NOVAK, R.; MATIJAŠIĆ, B.B.; ŠPANOVÁ, A.

Released

1. 6. 2011

Publisher

Tribun EU s.r.o.

Location

Cejl 32, 602 00 Brno

ISBN

978-80-263-0004-5

Book

XX. konference mladých mikrobiologů Tomáškovy Dny 2011 Sborník abstraktů

Edition

Tribun EU

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BibTex

@misc{BUT66181,
  author="TURKOVÁ, K. and MAVRIČ, A. and NOVAK, R. and MATIJAŠIĆ, B.B. and ŠPANOVÁ, A.",
  title="Production of antimicrobial substances by strains of Lactobacillus genus",
  booktitle="XX. konference mladých mikrobiologů Tomáškovy Dny 2011 Sborník abstraktů",
  year="2011",
  series="Tribun EU",
  edition="1",
  pages="62--63",
  publisher="Tribun EU s.r.o.",
  address="Cejl 32, 602 00 Brno",
  isbn="978-80-263-0004-5",
  note="abstract"
}