Competitive selection of lactic acid bacteria that persist in the human oral cavity.

ABSTRACT: Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) might offer opportunities as oral probiotics provided candidate strains persist in the mouth. After intake of a mixture of 69 LAB, strains of Lactobacillus fermentum and Lactobacillus salivarius were especially recovered. Coaggregation with other microbes is likely not a prerequisite for persistence since L. salivarius strongly coaggregated with typical oral cavity isolates, whereas L. fermentum failed to display this phenotype.

SUBMITTER: Snel J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3233049 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature