TABLE 2.

Antifungal effects of the LAB-derived EPS.

Producing organism	Monosaccharides	Purified/Crude/Modified	Conc. mg/mL	Pathogens	In vitro/In vivo	Mode of action	References
Lactococcus lactis F-mou		Purified	16	Candida albicans	in vitro	Fungicidal effect	Nehal et al., 2019
Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG	Galactose-rich exopolysaccharides (EPS)	Purified	0.050, 0.1, 0.2	Candida albicans SC5314 Candida glabrata ATCC 2001	in vitro	Play an essential role in decreasing hyphal formation and during adhesion to vaginal epithelial cells	Allonsius et al., 2017