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Selection, characterisation and screening of lactic acid bacteria of chicken origin that have probiotic properties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2017

S. Savvidou*
Affiliation:
University of Plymouth, Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom
P. Brooks
Affiliation:
University of Plymouth, Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom
J. Beal
Affiliation:
University of Plymouth, Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom
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Increasing scientific awareness of health and production promoting intestinal bacteria has enhanced the use of probiotic bacteria as active functional ingredients in animal and human nutrition. Strict selection criteria, suggested by Edens (2003), for potential probiotics in order to achieve well established and positive probiotic effects have been engaged, including the safety for the host and the capacity of the strains to be viable as well as metabolically active within the gastrointestinal tract (GI). In vitro methods have been used for screening potential probiotic strains using a dynamic model that mimics in vivo GI conditions as closely as possible. The objective of this study was to isolate, characterise and further select beneficial lactobacillus strains in an attempt to predict candidates that could be used in vivo as chicken probiotic adjuncts.

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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 2008

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