Table 2 The effect of the L. casei strain on S. aureus and S. epidermidis strains that are part of the skin microbiome.
Mixtures of strains | Initial density of skin microbiome strains | Density of skin microbiome strains after 5 h of incubation | Reduction [log] | Density of skin microbiome strains after 24 h of incubation | Reduction [log] | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CFU/ml | Log CFU/ml | CFU/ml | Log CFU/ml | Log | CFU/ml | Log CFU/ml | Log | |
S.aureus + L.casei | 1.81 × 108 | 8.26 log | 2.81 × 107 | 7.45 | -0.81 | 1.9 × 107 | 7.27 | -0.99 |
S.epidermidis + L.casei | 2.6 × 108 | 8.41 log | 3.5 × 108 | 8.54 | + 0.13 | 1.01 × 109 | 9.0 | + 0.59 |
Mixtures of strains | Initial density of the L. casei | Density of the L. casei after 5 h of incubation | Reduction [log] | Density of L. casei after 24 h of incubation | Reduction [log] | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CFU/ml | Log CFU/ml | CFU/ml | Log CFU/ml | Log | CFU/ml | Log CFU/ml | Log | |
S.aureus + L.casei | 1.25 × 108 | 8.10 | 1.1 × 109 | 9.04 | + 0.94 | 2.87 × 1011 | 11.46 | + 3.36 |
S.epidermidis + L.casei | 1.94 × 108 | 8.28 | 2.3 × 109 | 9.36 | + 1.08 | 3.08 × 1010 | 10.49 | + 2.21 |
