FIGURE 7.

Effect of LC-CLA in interfering with enteric bacterial pathogen-cell interactions. Human epithelial cell adhesive and invasive activities of ST (A) and EHEC (B) with pre-treatment of either L. casei or CFCSs from L. casei strains were examined in triplicate. A constant MOI = 100 was applied in each sub-figure. Bars indicate average ± standard deviation from parallel trials. Different letters ‘A’–‘C’ and ‘a’–‘c’ within each bacterial pathogen are significantly different among control and treatments for cell bacterial adhesion and invasion separately over three biological repetitions at p < 0.05.