Interaction between lactic acid bacteria and Mycobacterium bovis in Ethiopian fermented milk: insight into the fate of M. bovis.
Mycobacterium bovis causes tuberculosis in animals and humans. Infected cows can transmit the bacillus to humans via milk. Milk also contains lactic acid bacteria (LAB). LAB isolated from milk were put in milk cultures together with spiked M. bovis. Different LAB had different abilities to reduce M. bovis counts, as M. bovis was undetectable in some while it persisted in two of the cultures.
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Solomon H
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Armauer Hansen Research Institute, P.O. Box 1005, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. solomonic2000@hotmail.com
D000818:Animals; D000898:Antibiosis; D015169:Colony Count, Microbial; D006801:Humans; D007777:Lactobacillaceae / Q000502:physiology*; D050296:Microbial Viability; D008892:Milk / Q000382:microbiology*; D009163:Mycobacterium bovis / Q000502:physiology*