[Lactobacillus fermentum CECT5716 - probiotic from human milk with interesting properties].

Probiotics are an intensively growing part of the pharmaceutical and nutrition industries. Along with the intensive development of sales volumes and product offers, more and more scientific publications on this subject are available (at the time of writing this article there are available almost 14 thousand publications in PubMed library). Scientists are trying to find new uses and new sources for this crucial group of nutrients or potential drugs. At the beginning of the XXI century it was discovered that the source of probiotics doesn't need to be only gastrointestinal tract (as previously thought), since they were obtained from breast milk which for many years were considered to be sterile. Probiotics from breast milk are an interesting group which could find application in mastitis, immunity support, infection prevention, infant colics and oral health. Main representative of this group is a strain of lactic acid bacteria Lactobacillus fermentum CECT5716.