Bifidobacterium breve R0070 and Altered Antibiotic Susceptibility

• Antibiotic susceptibility profile of bifidobacteria as affected by oxgall, acid, and hydrogen peroxide stress.

  • 2007-01
  • Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 51(1)
  • • E Kheadr
    • N Dabour
    • C Le Lay
    • C Lacroix
    • I Fliss

  • PubMed: 17060530
  • DOI: 10.1128/aac.00261-06

  1 Insight on

  • Altered Antibiotic Susceptibility

  • Low evidence

  This study shows that exposure of bifidobacteria to stressful conditions resembling those in the gastrointestinal tract may substantially modify their susceptibilities to antibiotics and may thus affect their probiotic capacities

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Moderate