Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Reduced Opportunistic Pathogens

• Probiotics and their postbiotics for the control of opportunistic fungal pathogens: A review.

  • 2023-06
  • Review
  • Biotechnology reports (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 38
  • • S Divyashree
    • B Shruthi
    • P R Vanitha
    • M Y Sreenivasa

  • PubMed: 37215743
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.btre.2023.e00800

  1 Insight on

  • Reduced Opportunistic Pathogens

  • Low evidence

  The antifungal potency of major groups of probiotic cultures such as Lactobacillus spp, Leuconostoc spp, Saccharomyces etc. and their metabolic byproducts which act as postbiotics like organic acids, short chain fatty acids, bacteriocin like metabolites, Hydrogen peroxide, cyclic dipeptides etc. to inhibit these opportunistic fungal pathogens have been discussed here.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate