Article: Investigators at HungKuang University target food science.

"We investigated the bactericidal activity and exclusion effect of 10 strains of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) isolated from different commercial food products and infant feces against Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) in human gastric epithelial AGS cells. Antagonistic activity of spent culture supernatants (SCS) from LAB(LAB-SCS) was tested, and the content of organic acids in SCS was analyzed with high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)," researchers in Shalu, Taiwan report.

"In addition, the bactericidal activities of LAB-SCS were estimated by a time-kill assay and by measuring the exclusion effect of LAB-SCS against H. pylori in AGS cells. The results ...

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