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ReviewMicroorganisms2016

Biofilm Forming Lactobacillus: New Challenges for the Development of Probiotics.

María José Salas-Jara, Alejandra Ilabaca, Marco Vega, Apolinaria García

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Review in Microorganisms, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 144 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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144citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

144 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  4. Identification ofFoods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  5. In vitro characterization of probiotic properties of isolated and grown co-cultures on halophyte-based substrate.International microbiology : the official journal of the Spanish Society for Microbiology · 2026
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  11. A Biofilm-StateMicroorganisms · 2026
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  20. Polydopamine-chitosan coated biofilm-stateMaterials today. Bio · 2025
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84 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

María José Salas-JaraLaboratorio de Patogenicidad Bacteriana, Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción 4030000, Chile. mariajosesalasjara@gmail.com.
Alejandra IlabacaLaboratorio de Patogenicidad Bacteriana, Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción 4030000, Chile. aleilabaca@udec.cl.
Marco VegaLaboratorio de Patogenicidad Bacteriana, Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción 4030000, Chile. mco.vga@gmail.com.
Apolinaria GarcíaLaboratorio de Patogenicidad Bacteriana, Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción 4030000, Chile. apgarcia@udec.cl.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Probiotics are live bacteria, generally administered in food, conferring beneficial effects to the host because they help to prevent or treat diseases, the majority of which are gastrointestinal. Numerous investigations have verified the beneficial effect of probiotic strains in biofilm form, including increased resistance to temperature, gastric pH and mechanical forces to that of their planktonic counterparts. In addition, the development of new encapsulation technologies, which have exploited the properties of biofilms in the creation of double coated capsules, has given origin to fourth generation probiotics. Up to now, reviews have focused on the detrimental effects of biofilms associated with pathogenic bacteria. Therefore, this work aims to amalgamate information describing the biofilms of Lactobacillus strains which are used as probiotics, particularly L. rhamnosus, L. plantarum, L. reuteri, and L. fermentum. Additionally, we have reviewed the development of probiotics using technology inspired by biofilms.

Indexed as

biofilmencapsulationLactobacillusprobiotics

Identifiers

PMID27681929
PMCPMC5039595

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