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Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology, January 2002, p. 184-186, Vol. 9, No. 1
1071-412X/01/$04.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.9.1.184-186.2002
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Resected Human Colonic Tissue: New Model for Characterizing Adhesion of Lactic Acid Bacteria

Department of Biochemistry and Food Chemistry, University of Turku,¹ Department of Oncology,³ Department of Surgery, Turku University Central Hospital, Turku, Finland²

Received 9 April 2001/ Returned for modification 20 August 2001/ Accepted 25 September 2001

Adhesion to the intestinal mucosa is one of the main selection criteria for probiotic strains. The adhesion of commonly used probiotic strains to human intestinal tissue pieces and mucus was assessed. The strains tested adhered to the intestinal tissue at low levels and adhered to the intestinal mucus at higher levels.

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