Table 3.

Survival rate of Bacillus subtilis at artificial gastric juice, intestinal juice, and bile (%).

Strains	1 h		2 h		Bile
	Gastric juice	Intestinal juice	Gastric juice	Intestinal juice
BYS2	100	100	100	100	47 ± 2.8
BQ3	100	100	100	100	49 ± 3.3
BGY12	100	100	100	100	100
BD17	81 ± 9.2	100	73 ± 4.3	100	48 ± 4.7
BG5	78 ± 4.3	100	82 ± 5.2	100	65 ± 4.0
B. subtilis CMCC63501	41 ± 3.1	100	17 ± 0.7	100	38 ± 1.8

Values were expressed as means ± SDs of three independent repetitions.