Title: Lactic Acid Bacteria as Probiotics: Applications and Safety Issues: Probiotic Attributes of Lactic Acid Bacteria
Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Publication Date: 2011
Language: English
ISBN 10: 3843391998
ISBN 13: 9783843391993
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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Fortification of our diet with certain gut flora components is a popular current aspect of functional food sciences. Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are normal components of the healthy human intestinal microflora, are commonly used as probiotics added to food products mainly because of their supposed health-promoting activities. Probiotics are live microbial additions to the diet; prebiotics are foodstuffs that have a selective metabolism in the hindgut, whilst synbiotics are combinations of the two approaches. Developments in the application of probiotics as potential therapeutics i. e. treatment of infections, for controlling HIV and as novel vaccine delivery vehicles. This text recapitulated findings and safety issues related to LAB are promising biological agents that can be used as probiotics.

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Dr. Tejpal Dhewa is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology, Dolphin (PG) Institute of Biomedical and Natural Sciences, Manduwala, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. His research is mainly focused on bacteriocin production, probiotics, prebiotics and synbiotic formulations.

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