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Table 4 Probiotic microbial counts following pathogen inhibition across oligosaccharide-probiotic-pathogen co-cultures

From: Prebiotic potential of oligosaccharides extracted from improved Ugandan varieties of millet, sesame, soybean, and sorghum: enhancing probiotic growth and enteric pathogen inhibition

 

probiotic count across oligosaccharide-probiotic-pathogen co-cultures after 24 h incubation (log CFU/ml)

Oligosaccharide source

Lpb. plantarum-salmonella

Lpb. plantarum-shigella

Lb. rhamnosus-salmonella

Lb. rhamnosus-shigella

 

0 h

24 h

0 h

24 h

0 h

24 h

0 h

24 h

Maksoy 3 N soybean

8.03 ± 0.04a

7.85 ± 1.44a

8.05 ± 0.21a

7.1 ± 1.13b

8.47 ± 0.48a

7.66 ± 1.35b

8.27 ± 0.2a

7.23 ± 0.5b

Indigenous variety-millet

8.05 ± 0.21a

7.48 ± 2.22b

7.96 ± 0.08a

6.79 ± 0.16b

8.34 ± 0.96a

6.95 ± 0.13b

7.84 ± 0.25a

6.81 ± 0.21b

Narosorg 2-sorghum

7.95 ± 0.21a

7.105 ± 1.14a

8.1 ± 0.14a

7.65 ± 1.06b

8.4 ± 0.57a

7.73 ± 1.17b

7.995 ± 0.01a

7.13 ± 0.95b

Sesim 2-sesame

8.1 ± 0.28a

7.75 ± 0.64a

8.25 ± 0.21a

7.65 ± 1.78b

7.94 ± 0.2a

6.55 ± 1.06b

8.09 ± 0.01a

6.9 ± 0.57b

Negative control

8.15 ± 0.49a

6.25 ± 0.92b

8.13 ± 0.18a

6.65 ± 0.21b

7.69 ± 0.14a

5.45 ± 0.64b

8.44 ± 0.26a

5.05 ± 1.48b

  1. Values indicate mean ± SD (n = 3) for oligosaccharide-probiotic-pathogen co-culture. Means in the same row followed by different letter superscripts are significantly different from each other at 5% level of significance