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Table 1 A diverse range of microorganisms commonly used as probiotics in animal

From: The role of probiotics on animal health and nutrition

Genus

Species

References

Gram-positive bacteria

Bifidobacterium

B. animalis

Mountzouris et al., (2010), Giannenas et al., (2012), Wideman et al., (2012)

B. bifidum

Haghighi et al., (2008a), DaÅŸkiran et al., (2012)

B. thermophilus

Khaksarzareha et al., (2012); Pedroso et al., (2013)

B. longum

Seo et al., (2010)

B. lactis

Seo et al., (2010)

Bacillus

B. amyloliquefaciens

Gracia et al., (2013)

B. toyonensis

Taras et al., (2005); Kantas et al., (2015)

B. coagulans

Adami and Cavazzoni, (1999); Hung et al., (2012)

B. subtilis

Alexopoulos et al., (2004); Davis et al., (2008); Rahman et al., (2013); Afsharmanesh and Sadaghi, (2014)

Lactobacillus

L. acidophilus

Morishita et al., (1997); Haghighi et al., (2008b); DaÅŸkiran et al., (2012); Khaksarzareha et al., (2012); Shim et al., (2012); Rahman et al., (2013); Zhang et al., (2014)

L. reuteri

Mountzouris et al., (2010); Giannenas et al., (2012); Wideman et al., (2012); Mookiah et al., (2014)

L. casei

Fajardo et al., (2012); Khaksarzareha et al., (2012); Landy and Kavyani, (2013)

L. gallinarum

OHYA et al., (2000)

Mookiah et al., (2014)

L. delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus

DaÅŸkiran et al., (2012)

L. plantarum

DaÅŸkiran et al., (2012); Rahman et al., (2013)

L. brevis

Mookiah et al., (2014)

Enterococcus

E. faecium

Mountzouris et al., (2010); Giannenas et al., (2012); Khaksarzareha et al., (2012); Wideman et al., (2012); Abdel-Rahman et al., (2013)(2013; Cao et al., (2013); Chawla et al., (2013); Pedroso et al., (2013); Zhao et al., (2013)

Clostridium

C. butyricum

Zhang et al., (2012); Zhao et al., (2013); Zhang and Kim, (2014)

Streptococcus

S. faecium

Morishita et al., (1997); Rahman et al., (2013)

S. salivarius subsp.

DaÅŸkiran et al., (2012)

thermophilus

Pedicoccus

P. acidilactici

Mountzouris et al., (2010), Wideman et al., (2012), Pedroso et al., (2013)

Leuconostoc

L. mesenteroides

Benmechernene et al., (2013)

Lactococcus

L. lactis

Fajardo et al., (2012)

Gram-negative bacteria

Escherichia

E. coli Nissle 1917

Hashemzadeh et al., (2013)

Megasphaera

M. elsdenii

Seo et al., (2010)

Prevotella

P. bryantii

Seo et al., (2010)

Yeast and Fungi

Saccharomyces

S. boulardii

Rahman et al., (2013)

S. cerevisiae

Shim et al., (2012), Abdel-Rahman et al., (2013)(2013, Bai et al., (2013)

Candida

C. pintolepesii

DaÅŸkiran et al., (2012)

Aspergillus

A. oryzae

DaÅŸkiran et al., (2012); Shim et al., (2012)

A. niger

Seo et al., (2010)