Intracellular proteinacious antimicrobial agents from lactic acid bacteria derived from fermented food samples
AssigneeKraft Foods Holdings, Inc.
InventorsOsama O. Ibrahim, Ahmed E. Yousef, Hyun-Jung Chung
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Abstract
The present invention is directed bacterial isolates that produce proteinacious antimicrobial agents effective against a variety of food borne pathogens. The invention includes the bacteria, bacteriocin preparations derived from the bacteria and methods by which the preparations may be used.
Claims7
A method of reducing the growth of a microbe in a food or pharmaceutical composition, comprising adding a biologically pure Lactobacillus curvatus bacteria having all of the identifying characteristics of the bacteria deposited on Apr. 23, 2004 as PTA-5150 at American Type Culture Collection, 10801 University Boulevard, Manassas, Va. 20110-2209 to said composition.
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