Cost and contamination are the bottleneck problems for replacement of antibiotics with fermented feed. A strain lactic acid bacteria was isolated screened from acidified apple juice identified as Pediococcus acidilactici using morphological, physiological, biochemical tests 16S rDNA sequence analysis. The combined Bacillus subtilis Saccharomyces cerevisiae to ferment raw corn–soybean meal, two-...

Designing stable dried functional food ingredients and foods containing live probiotic cultures maintaining high viable cell loads at the time of consumption is a challenge for industry. The aim present study was development freeze-dried with enhanced shelf-life during long storage. Zea flakes, pistachios, raisins were used as immobilization supports wild-type presumptive strains Pediococcus ac...

Probiotification of plant milk can improve its sensory and health-promoting properties. As traditional fermented foods where lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are present have been associated with beneficial effects on human health, the two LAB recently isolated from current Ivorian staple (a pepper a beer) were screened. These strains LAC 1 (Lactobacillus plantarum) 2 (Pediococcus acidilactici) which...

Coccidiosis is the major parasitic disease of poultry and is caused by the apicomplexan parasites Eimeria. Drugs and live vaccines are the 2 main control measures of the disease; however, due to increasing concerns with prophylactic drug use and the high cost of vaccines, alternative control methods are needed. Recent evidence that various dietary and live microbial supplements can influence ho...

Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) exert antagonistic activities against diverse microorganisms, including pathogens. In this work, we aimed to investigate the ability of LAB strains isolated from food produce biofilms and inhibit growth surface colonization Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) O157:H7 at 10°C. The 100 EHEC NCTC12900 was evaluated in agar diffusion assays. Thirty-seven showed str...

Antioxidant defences and induced oxidative stress tissue damage of the blue shrimp Litopenaeus stylirostris, under challenge with Vibrio nigripulchritudo, were investigated for a 72-h period. For this purpose, L. stylirostris were first infected by immersion with pathogenic V. nigripulchritudo strain SFn1 and then antioxidant defences: superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), glutathione per...

A strain of Pediococcus acidilactici LAB 5 was isolated from vacuum-packed fermented meat product, in order to obtain a novel bacteriocin from food-grade organisms. Optimized culture conditions for bacteriocin production in different media (viz., MRS, TGE, TGE + buffer, TGE + Tween 80, and TGE + Tween 80 + buffer) and at different temperatures and pH conditions were reported. TGE + Tween 80 + b...

This study combined moist airtight storage of moist grain with pig feed fermentation. Starter cultures with the potential to facilitate both technologies were added to airtight stored moist crimped cereal grain, and the impact on storage microflora and the quality of feed fermentations generated from the grain was investigated. Four treatments were compared: three based on moist barley, either ...

The pediococci residing on plants resemble the lactobacilli, but they differ from the streptococci in their limited distribution and low population level on plants. They are a subgroup within the genus Pediococcus which grow freely in neutral media and require neither NaCl nor CO(2). They are most readily recognized by the ability to initiate growth in liquid media, acidified to pH 5.0, which c...