Live probiotics protect intestinal epithelial cells from the effects of infection with enteroinvasive <i>Escherichia coli</i> (EIEC)

Abstract

Live ST/LA interact with intestinal epithelial cells to protect them from the deleterious effect of EIEC via mechanisms that include, but are not limited to, interference with pathogen adhesion and invasion. Probiotics likely also enhance the barrier function of naïve epithelial cells not exposed to any pathogen.