Table 5.

Some microbial strains that bound aflatoxin in previous studies.

Approach	Most Effective Strains Identified	Maximum Binding Efficiency	Factors Affecting Binding Efficiency	Reference
In vitro	S. cerevisiae strain A18	69.1%	Strain, temperature, acidity environment, incubation time, aflatoxin concentration, growing phase of bacteria	Shetty and Jesperson (2007) [119]
In vitro	Dead L. buchneri R1102 Dead L. plantarum R2014 P. acidilactici EQ01	66.5% 60.5%, 56.9%	Dose, viability, bacteria species and pH	Ma et al. (2017) [123]
In vitro	L. rhamnosus strain GG L. rhamnosus strain LC-705	77% 75%	Strain Viability	Pierides et al. (2000) [121]
In vitro	L. amylovorus strain CSCC5160	73.2%	Stain and incubation time	Peltonen et al. (2001) [122]
	L. amylovorus CSCC 5197	72.4
	Lactobacillus rhamnosus strain LC1/3	76.9