Human Breast Milk: A Source of Potential Probiotic Candidates.

This study focuses on the isolation of lactobacilli/bifidobacteria from human breast milk and their first characterization, in the perspective to find new probiotic candidates to be included in food products. More specifically, breast-milk-isolated strains demonstrated a very good aptitude to adhere to intestinal cells, in comparison with GG strain, taken as reference. The same behavior has been found for hydrophobicity/auto-aggregation properties.