Table 6.

Strains used in this study

Species	Strain
Bifidobacterium thermacidophilum subsp. thermacidophilum	LMG 21395T
Bifidobacterium thermacidophilum subsp. porcinum	LMG 21689T
Bifidobacterium adolescentis	DSM 20083T
Bifidobacterium bifidum	DSM 20456T
Bifidobacterium boum	DSM 20432T
Bifidobacterium breve	DSM 20213T
Bifidobacterium longum subtype infantis	DSM 20088T
Bifidobacterium longum subtype longum	DSM 20219T
Bifidobacterium thermophilum	DSM 20210T
Bifidobacterium longum subtype suis	DSM 20211
Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. Lactis	DSM 10140T
Bifidobacterium	RBL67*
Bifidobacterium	RBL68*
Bifidobacterium	RBL70*
Escherichia coli	XL1-Blue‡

BCCM/LMG™: Belgian co-ordinated collections of micro-organisms/Laboratorium voor

Microbiology en microbiele Genetica, Ghent, Belgium

DSM: German Microorganism Collection, Braunschweig, Germany

*Isolated from baby faeces [22]; ‡ referred in Bullock et al. [41]