Lactobacillus fermentum UALf-32 and Reduced Intestinal Cell Adhesion

• Evaluation of adherence and anti-infective properties of probiotic Lactobacillus fermentum strain 4-17 against Escherichia coli causing urinary tract infection in humans.

  • 2019-06
  • Microbial Pathogenesis 131
  • • F. Falah
    • A. Vasiee
    • B. A. Behbahani
    • F. T. Yazdi
    • S. Moradi
    • S. Mortazavi
    • S. Roshanak

  • PubMed: 30974159
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.micpath.2019.04.006

  6 Insights on

  • Reduced Intestinal Cell Adhesion

  • Low evidence

  The adhesion level of L. fermentum strain 4-17 to human colon adenocarcinoma Caco-2 cells was 8.5% which was also confirmed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate