In vitro evaluation of nutrients that selectively confer a competitive advantage to lactobacilli

Beneficial Microbes

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 299-304

  Vongsa, R A ^a   Minerath, R A ^a   Busch, M A ^a   Tan, J ^a   Koenig, D W ^a  

^a KIMBERLY CLARK CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Competitive; Fructo oligosaccharides; Growth; Microflora; Urogenital; Vaginal

Indexed keywords

FRUCTOSE OLIGOSACCHARIDE; PREBIOTIC AGENT; CULTURE MEDIUM; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; PROBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IN VITRO STUDY; INCUBATION TIME; LACTOBACILLUS ACIDOPHILUS; LACTOBACILLUS CRISPATUS; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; CHEMISTRY; COCULTURE; CULTURE MEDIUM; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; LACTOBACILLUS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; VULVA;

COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; CULTURE MEDIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HUMANS; LACTOBACILLUS; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; PROBIOTICS; VULVA;

EID: 84961775046     PISSN: 18762883     EISSN: 18762891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3920/BM2015.0047     Document Type: Article

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