Fig. 4

Culturable bacterial numbers in pH-controlled batch cultures of stool samples after 24 h of fermentation in the presence and absence of Li. fermentum L18. A Bacteroides B Bifidobacteria C Lactobacilli, D Enterobacteriaceae E Clostridia F Total anaerobes. Bars are representative of the means of three experiments and error bars represent standard deviation. *Significance (p < 0.05) was measured by using unpaired Student’s t-test