Northern Nutritionals

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  • Probiotic Strain Specificity

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    Karline Jensen
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    A study by Ghattargi et al. (2018) highlights the potential for strains from a single species to range from probiotic to pathogenic, with some being cultivated in traditional fermentation while others exhibit a neutrality that is neither probiotic nor pathogenic.  This study compared the genomes of ten different strains of Enterococcus faecium.  While these different…