Probiotics are known to have a long history of safe use and can be formulated into many
different types of products, including foods, drugs, and dietary supplements. Several …

Over the last 50 years, human life expectancy and quality of life have increased dramatically
due to improvements in nutrition and the use of antibiotics in the fight against infectious …

This guidance document is intended to assist the applicant in the preparation and the
presentation of an application, as foreseen in Article 7.6 of Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 …

Use of probiotic biofilms can be an alternative approach for reducing the formation of
pathogenic biofilms in food industries. The aims of this study were (i) to evaluate the …

This Guidance document is intended to provide a method to identify resistance to
antimicrobials of human and veterinary importance in bacterial strains intended for use as …

Introduction Probiotic lactobacilli are generally recognized as safe (GRAS) and are being
used in several food and pharma formulations. However, growing concern of antibiotic …

The study provides phenotypic and molecular analyses of the antibiotic resistance in lactic
acid bacteria (LAB) from fermented foods in Xi'an, China. LAB strains (n= 84) belonging to …

Lactobacilli are Gram positive rods belonging to the Lactic Acid Bacteria (LAB) group. Their
phenotypic traits, such as each species' obligate/facultative, homo/heterofermentation …

Bacteria belonging to the genus Lactobacillus are used as starter cultures or that develop
naturally as fermenting microbiota in the production of various foods. On the detrimental …

Lactobacilli represent a major Lactic Acid Bacteria (LAB) component within the complex
microbiota of fermented foods obtained from meat, dairy, and vegetable sources. Lactococci …