Review Article
Year: 2021 | Month: January-March | Volume: 6 | Issue: 1 | Pages: 157-162
Highlights on the Usefulness of Probiotic Lactobacilli: A Review Based Study
Debashis Halder, Shyamapada Mandal
Laboratory of Microbiology and Experimental Medicine, Department of Zoology, University of Gour Banga, Malda-732103, India.
Corresponding Author: Shyamapada Mandal
ABSTRACT
Probiotics are the live microorganisms that when applied sufficiently the hosts get beneficial effects. The lactic acid bacteria constitute such group of beneficial bacteria, among which lactobacilli have been studied largely in terms of the probiotic authenticity for human consumption around the world. This communication updates, based upon the available published data, the physiological stressors tolerance and antibacterial capacity as well as the safety profiles of lactobacilli, including the strains available from different natural sources, intended to be used as probiotics, because of the increasing interest on probiotic consumption by the people around the world.
Keywords: Lactobacilli, probiotics, antagonistic activity, bacteriocin, fermented food.