Feiyan Zhao, Xiaoye Bai, Juntao Zhang, Lai-Yu Kwok, Lingling Shen, Hao Jin, Tiansong Sun, Zhihong Sun, Heping Zhang
Bifidobacteria are health-promoting human gut inhabitants, but accurate species-level composition of the gut bifidobacteria and their responses to probiotic intervention have not been fully explored. This was a follow-up work of our previous study, in which 104 volunteers from six different Asiatic regions (Singapore, Indonesia, Xinjiang, Gansu, Inner Mongolia, Mongolia) were recruited. The gut microbiota and their responses towards Lactobacillus casei Zhang (LCZ) intervention were characterized (at days 0, 7, and 14; 14 days after stopping probiotic intake), and region-based differential responses were observed after LCZ intervention...
April 2022: Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology