Breakdown of psyllium hydrocolloid by strains of Bacteroides ovatus from the human intestinal tract
- 1 March 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Journal of Microbiology
- Vol. 24 (3) , 336-338
- https://doi.org/10.1139/m78-057
Abstract
Strains of Bacteroides ovatus from human feces produced extracellular enzymes which degraded psyllium hydrocolloid. Other species of saccharolytic bacteria which are found in high concentrations in human feces did not degrade psyllium.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Fermentation of mucins and plant polysaccharides by anaerobic bacteria from the human colonApplied and Environmental Microbiology, 1977
- Fermentation of mucin and plant polysaccharides by strains of Bacteroides from the human colonApplied and Environmental Microbiology, 1977