Preliminary Investigations on the Therapeutic Efficacy and Safety of Mixed Probiotic Lactic Acid Bacteria on Albino Rats Challenged with Shigella dysenteriae

Table 1

Identification of Lactobacillus species based on carbohydrate fermentation profiles using API 50 CHL database.

Lactobacillus sp.	API identification	ID (%)
Gb8 4b	Lactobacillus brevis 1	86
TM8	Lactococcus lactis ssp. lactis 1	71.9
GB3 4b	Lactococcus lactis ssp. lactis 1	93.8
GB2 5b	Lactococcus lactis ssp. lactis 1	79.8
GB3 4a	Lactococcus lactis ssp. lactis 1	71.3

ID: identity (%); the percentages following the scientific names of species represent the similarities from the computer-aided database of the apiweb^™ API 50 CHL Vs. 1 software.