Abstract

Probiotics plays a vital role in our life. Lactobacillus sp. used as a common probiotic around the world. In many food and fermentation industries lactobacilli used to prevent food from spoilage against a variety of food spoilage bacteria. Lactobacilli have two pathways for fermentation metabolism: homofermentative and heterofermentative. They are classified according to their metabolism and lactic acid isomer form. Lactobacilli are able to inhibit / prevent the growth of many bacteria, moulds, pathogens due to their antibacterial / antifungal / antimicrobial properties. Lactobacillus sp. have beneficial evidence on human health because of preventive / curative effect on various infectious diseases such as gastrointestinal, urogenital infection, diarrhea and even carcinogenesis.

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