TABLE 2.

Tolerance to artificial gastric juice and bile salts.

Strains	CFU/ml
	0 h	4 h, pH 2.5	12 h, 0.4% bile salts
MW01	8.57 ± 0.36 × 108	6.51 ± 0.43 × 108	7.46 ± 0.54 × 108
MW02	8.48 ± 0.22 × 108	6.82 ± 0.57 × 108	7.61 ± 0.25 × 108
MW03	9.22 ± 0.41 × 108	8.98 ± 0.70 × 108	9.03 ± 0.64 × 108
MW04	8.94 ± 0.67 × 108	7.01 ± 0.55 × 108	7.71 ± 0.37 × 108
MW05	8.05 ± 0.14 × 108	5.17 ± 0.03 × 106	5.82 ± 0.34 × 106
MW06	8.76 ± 0.73 × 108	7.20 ± 0.17 × 105	2.79 ± 0.25 × 106
MW07	7.98 ± 0.09 × 108	4.31 ± 1.75 × 105	8.03 ± 0.64 × 105
MW08	8.24 ± 0.07 × 108	7.05 ± 0.25 × 106	5.37 ± 0.37 × 107
MW09	9.32 ± 0.70 × 108	8.12 ± 0.09 × 107	7.03 ± 0.17 × 106
MW10	8.84 ± 1. 26 × 108	8.81 ± 1. 26 × 106	7.84 ± 1. 26 × 106
MW11	8.37 ± 0.06 × 108	9.32 ± 0.06 × 105	4.41 ± 0.06 × 106
MW12	8.93 ± 0.07 × 108	7.51 ± 0.11 × 106	5.97 ± 0.03 × 106
MW13	8.03 ± 0.10 × 108	6.35 ± 0.21 × 105	8.29 ± 0.06 × 105