TABLE 2.

Competition of probiotic lactic acid bacteria toward A. salmonicida for adhesion to fish intestinal and skin mucus

Probiotic bacteria	% A. salmonicida adhesiona (SD)
	Skin	Intestine
None (buffer)	1.6 (0.6)	2.5 (2.9)
L. rhamnosus LC 705	0.8 (0.1)	1.7 (0.7)
B. lactis Bb12	1.4 (0.4)	2.4 (0.5)
L. bulgaricus	0.4 (0.2)	1.6 (0.4)
E. faecium Tehobak	0.9 (0.1)	1.5 (0.3)
L. rhamnosus ATCC 53103	2.0 (0.3)	2.4 (0.9)
L. johnsonii La1	0.7 (0.1)	1.1 (0.3)
L. casei Shirota	1.4 (0.1)	0.5 (0.1)

^aPercentage of radioactivity recovered from immobilized mucus and compared to radioactivity of the added bacteria.