Dietary supplementation with soluble plantain non-starch polysaccharides inhibits intestinal invasion of Salmonella Typhimurium in the chicken.

Soluble fibres (non-starch polysaccharides, NSP) from edible plants but particularly plantain banana (Musa spp.), have been shown in vitro and ex vivo to prevent various enteric pathogens from adhering to, or translocating across, the human intestinal epithelium, a property that we have termed contr...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bryony N Parsons, Paul Wigley, Hannah L Simpson, Jonathan M Williams, Suzie Humphrey, Anne-Marie Salisbury, Alastair J M Watson, Stephen C Fry, David O'Brien, Carol L Roberts, Niamh O'Kennedy, Asa V Keita, Johan D Söderholm, Jonathan M Rhodes, Barry J Campbell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24498347/?tool=EBI