Adhesion Properties of Dad-13 and Mut-7 on Sprague Dawley Rat Intestine.

Adhesion capacity is considered one of the selection criteria for probiotic strains. The purpose of this study was to determine the adhesion properties of two candidate probiotics, Dad-13 and Mut-7. The evaluation included the hydrophobicity of the cell surface using microbial adhesion to hydrocarbons (MATH), autoaggregation, and the adhesion of Dad-13 and Mut-7 to the intestinal mucosa of Sprague Dawley rat, followed by genomic analysis of the two strains.