title: Competitive selection of lactic acid bacteria that persist in the human oral cavity.
abstract: Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) might offer opportunities as oral probiotics provided candidate strains persist in the mouth. After intake of a mixture of 69 LAB, strains of Lactobacillus fermentum and Lactobacillus salivarius were especially recovered. Coaggregation with other microbes is likely not a prerequisite for persistence since L. salivarius strongly coaggregated with typical oral cavity isolates, whereas L. fermentum failed to display this phenotype.
authors.affiliation: NIZO food research, Ede, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Johannes
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Snel
authors.forename: Maria L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Marco
authors.forename: Fedde
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kingma
authors.forename: Wouter M
authors.initials: WM
authors.lastname: Noordman
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rademaker
authors.forename: Michiel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kleerebezem
mesh_terms: D044822:Biodiversity; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D015169:Colony Count, Microbial; D016172:DNA Fingerprinting; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D019344:Lactic Acid / Q000378:metabolism*; D007778:Lactobacillus / Q000235:genetics / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000378:metabolism*; D009055:Mouth / Q000382:microbiology*; D019105:Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA Technique; D012463:Saliva / Q000382:microbiology; D014059:Tongue / Q000382:microbiology; D014070:Tooth / Q000382:microbiology
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D019344:Lactic Acid