Aminopeptidase and autolytic activity were generally higher for most lactobacilli compared to other strains. |
For its part streptococcus thermophilus promotes the growth of the lactobacilli by creating minute amounts of formic acid. |
Commercial preparations of lactobacilli are used as probiotics to restore normal flora after the imbalance created by antibiotic therapy. |
This slows the yeast down, but not the enzymes and lactobacilli, which are busy converting grain sugars and starches into forms that people can digest. |
These are likely to be unhelpful to women with bacterial vaginosis because the lactobacilli are directed at the wrong anatomical site and are of the wrong kind. |
Keep the lactobacilli high enough in the guts of these kids, and you prevent autoimmunity. |