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- Title
Production and Biomedical Applications of Probiotic Biosurfactants.
- Authors
Fariq, Anila; Saeed, Ayesha
- Abstract
Biosurfactants have been widely used for environmental and industrial applications. However, their use in medical field is still limited. Probiotic biosurfactants possess an immense antimicrobial, anti-adhesive, antitumor, and antibiofilm potential. Moreover, they have an additional advantage over conventional microbial surfactants because probiotics are an integral part of normal human microflora and their biosurfactants are innocuous to human. So, they can be effectively exploited for medicinal use. Present review is aimed to discourse the production and biomedical applications of probiotic biosurfactants.
- Subjects
BIOSURFACTANTS; MICROBIAL surfactants; ANTI-infective agents; ANTINEOPLASTIC agents; THERAPEUTIC use of probiotics
- Publication
Current Microbiology, 2016, Vol 72, Issue 4, p489
- ISSN
0343-8651
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00284-015-0978-4