SUMMARY A vast and diverse array of microbial species displaying great phylogenic,
genomic, and metabolic diversity have colonized the gastrointestinal tract. Resident …

The gut microbial ecosystem, which is a collection of the host-microbiota interactions and the
inter-species interplay among bacteria-dominated microbiota, has become a research …

In recent decades, probiotic bacteria have become increasingly popular as a result of
mounting scientific evidence to indicate their beneficial role in modulating human health …

Dysbiosis, a loss of balance between resident bacterial communities and their host, is
associated with multiple diseases, including inflammatory bowel diseases (nonspecific …

The commercial interest in functional foods that contain live microorganisms, also termed
probiotics, is paralleled by increasing scientific attention to their functionality in the digestive …

Highlights•Intestinal lactobacilli are often detected in untargeted gut microbiome
studies.•Depletion of intestinal Lactobacillus is frequently associated with …

Bacteria belonging to the genus Lactobacillus are members of the lactic acid bacteria (LAB),
a broadly defined group characterized by the formation of lactic acid as the sole or main end …

Lactobacillus salivarius has been frequently isolated from the mammalian digestive tract and
has been studied as a candidate probiotic. Research to date has described the …

Nobel Laureate Elie Metchnikoff formulated the Probiotic Concept approximately 100 years
ago. He proposed that consumption of certain'lactic bacilli'would enhance one's health and …

The interest of probiotics as remedies for a broad number of gastrointestinal and other
infectious diseases has gained wide interest over the last few years, but little is known about …