Enterococci, being the common part of indigenous human microbiota and present in numerous fermented food products and probiotics, are often positioned as health-threatening bacterial pathogens. This makes medical community, especially part of it which is not involved in microbiology research, in an uncertainty regarding the legitimacy of using enterococcal probiotics in medical practice or even consuming them in foods such as cheese or salami. However, the difference between the clinical strains and strains used as probiotics is more than significant. The present paper tries to shed light on enterococci based on the contemporary knowledge of molecular microbiology.

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肠球菌益生菌有什么问题？

肠球菌是土著人类微生物群落的常见组成部分，存在于许多发酵食品和益生菌中，通常被定位为威胁健康的细菌病原体。这使得医学界，尤其是其中一部分未参与微生物学研究的医学界，不确定是否在医学实践中使用肠球菌益生菌，甚至在奶酪或萨拉米香肠等食物中食用它们是否合法。但是，临床菌株与用作益生菌的菌株之间的差异非常明显。本文试图根据当代分子微生物学知识阐明肠球菌。