Assessment of commercial probiotic products in China for labelling accuracy and probiotic characterisation of selected isolates

International Journal of Dairy Technology

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 119-126

  Chen, Tingtao ^a   Wu, Qinglong ^a,b   Zhou, Haiting ^a   Deng, Kan ^a   Wang, Xin ^a   Meng, Fanjing ^a   Yang, Shaoguo ^a   Wang, Xiaolei ^a   Shah, Nagendra P ^b   Wei, Hua ^a  

^a NANCHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Microbial population; PCR DGGE; Probiotic characterisation; Probiotics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996938075     PISSN: 1364727X     EISSN: 14710307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1471-0307.12331     Document Type: Article

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