Probiotic properties of Lactobacillus rhamnosus and Lactobacillus paracasei isolated from human faeces

Background  

The possibility of using microbes to maintain health, and to prevent or treat disease is a topic as old as microbiology. The research of novel probiotic strains is important in order to satisfy the increasing request of the market and to obtain functional products in which the probiotic cultures are more active and with better probiotic characteristics than those already present on the market.