A New Vaccine and Probiotic Combat Cholera in Animal Models (2 of 2) (IMAGE)

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A New Vaccine and Probiotic Combat Cholera in Animal Models (2 of 2)

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Cell dish experiments showed that L. lactis had an antibacterial effect when grown on a layer of cholera bacteria. A strain of L. lactis deficient in lactic acid production (L. lactis Δldh) did not show the same effect. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 13 June, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by N. Mao at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA; and colleagues was titled, "Probiotic strains detect and suppress cholera in mice."

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N. Mao <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine</i> (2018)

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