Galacto-oligosaccharide prebiotics

G Tzortzis, J Vulevic - Prebiotics and probiotics science and …, 2009 - ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
The wide recognition of bifidobacteria as health promoting bacteria (Boesten and de Vos,
2008) has attracted a lot of interest in identifying substances that can selectively promote
their growth. Many studies using conventional culture and molecular techniques for bacterial
identification have shown that breast-fed infants are characterized by an intestinal
microbiota that is dominated by bifidobacteria (Benno et al., 1984), which is different from
that of infants fed on cow's milk in that their microbiotas are characterized by lower counts of …