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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, September 1999, p. 4288-4291, Vol. 65, No. 9
0099-2240/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Characterization of Two Bacillus Probiotics

David H. Green,1 Phil R. Wakeley,1 Anthony Page,1,dagger Andrew Barnes,1 Loredana Baccigalupi,2 Ezio Ricca,2 and Simon M. Cutting1,*

School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, United Kingdom,1 and Section of Microbiology, Department of General and Environmental Physiology, University Federico II, 80134 Naples, Italy2

Received 19 April 1999/Accepted 1 July 1999

Bacillus subtilis is currently used as an oral probiotic. We examined two commercial B. subtilis probiotic preparations, Enterogermina and Biosubtyl. Surprisingly, physiological and genetic characterization of the bacteria contained in each of these preparations has shown that neither contains B. subtilis.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, United Kingdom. Phone: 01784-443760. Fax: 01784-434326. E-mail: s.cutting{at}rhbnc.ac.uk.

dagger Present address: Biomedical Imaging Unit, General Hospital, Southampton SO16 6YD, United Kingdom.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, September 1999, p. 4288-4291, Vol. 65, No. 9
0099-2240/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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