Assessment of potential probiotic properties and multiple bacteriocin encoding-genes of the technological performing strain Enterococcus faecium MMRA

Food Control

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 343-350

  Rehaiem, Amel ^a,b   Belgacem, Zouhaier Ben ^a   Edalatian, Mohammad Reza ^c   Martínez, Beatriz ^d   Rodríguez, Ana ^d   Manai, Mohamed ^a   Guerra, Nelson Pérez ^e  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b University of Jendouba   (Tunisia)

^c FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

^d DEPARTMENT OF MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY OF DAIRY PRODUCTS   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Enterocin; Enterococcus faecium MMRA; Healthy; Multiple bacteriocin encoding genes; Probiotic attributes; Safety

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885946593     PISSN: 09567135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2013.09.044     Document Type: Article

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