1. [Mechanism of antagonistic activity of lactobacilli].
- Author
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Tiurin MV, Shenderov BA, Rakhimova NG, Pospelova VV, and Lagoda IV
- Subjects
- Culture Media, Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay, Plasmids, Antibiosis, Bacteria growth & development, Lactobacillus physiology
- Abstract
Different species of lactobacilli, when grown together with salmonellae and shigellae, have been found to inhibit their growth and proliferation. The supernatants of the culture fluids of 8 species of lactobacilli have been shown to contain natural metabolites, other than lactic acid, with a wide spectrum of antibacterial activity with regard to different opportunistic aerobic and anaerobic microorganisms. The relationship between the antagonistic activity and the presence of plasmid DNA in a number of the most active antagonistic lactobacilli is discussed.
- Published
- 1989