A probiotic yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae was incorporated in basal diet prepared with fish meal, soybean meal, groundnut oil cake, corn flour, tapioca flour, egg albumin, cod liver oil and vitamin Bcomplex, at four different concentrations (10g, 20g, 30g and 40g kg) and fed to Macrobrachium rosenbergii post larvae (PL) for 90 days. The effect of this probiotic incorporation on the growth and...

Background The objective of the present study was to evaluate the growth performance and feed utilization of African catfish Clarias gariepinus fed a commercial diet and reared in the biofloc system enhanced with probiotic. Methods The treatment was the frequency of probiotic application into the cultured system, namely, 5-day interval, 10-day interval, and 15-day interval for 60 days of experi...

Background The objective of the present study was to evaluate the growth performance and feed utilization of African catfish fed a commercial diet and Clarias gariepinus reared in the biofloc system enhanced with probiotic. Methods The treatment was the frequency of probiotic application into the cultured system, namely, 5-day interval, 10-day interval, and 15-day interval for 60 days of experi...

The clinical benefits observed with probiotic use are mainly attributed to the antimicrobial substances produced by probiotic strains and to their immunomodulatory effects. Currently, the best-documented probiotic bacteria used in human therapy are lactic acid bacteria. In contrast, studies aiming to characterize the mechanisms responsible for the probiotic beneficial effects of Bacillus are ra...

Lactobacillus acidophilus is a commercially significant bacterial probiotic, originally isolated from the human gastrointestinal tract and designated Bacillus acidophilus in 1900. Throughout the development of methods to identify and characterise bacteria, L. acidophilus has undergone multiple taxonomic revisions and is now the type species of a phylogenetic subgroup in the highly diverse and h...

background and objectives: the purpose of the present study was to investigate effects of various heat shock conditions and fast freezing and subsequent thawing on the viability and recovery of bacillus coagulans and bacillus subtilis as probiotic sporeformers, and also to compare spore plate and microscopic counts. materials and methods: after preparing the final suspensions of b. coagulans an...

s: Probiotic mean live microorganisms that have beneficial effects on their host’s health. Although probiotic strains can be isolated from many sources; for human applications the main criteria is being human origin. Breast milk is an important nutrient source for neonates. Lots of studies showed that this fluid has beneficial effects on the health of neonates. One reason of being beneficial is...

The exposure of fish to environmental free-living microbes and its effect on early colonization in the gut have been studied in recent years. However, little is known regarding how the host and environment interact to shape gut communities during early life. Here, we tested whether the early microbial exposure of tilapia larvae affects the gut microbiota at later life stages. The experimental p...

The draft genome sequence of Bacillus subtilis GS 188, a novel spore-forming probiotic bacterium with gluten-hydrolyzing potential, was isolated from wheat sourdough and provides deep insights into the beneficial features of this strain for its use in the preparation of gluten-reduced wheat foods for humans with celiac disease.

Dairy products containing lactic acid bacteria are often consumed because of the health-promoting activities of some strains of these bacteria as probiotics. It is important that these strains survive the acidic environment of the product since only microorganisms that are alive can be functionally active. This report describes the potential of luctulose to improve the survival of available pro...