LAB may simply be holding the place of, and making the environment hostile to PM.
In humans, yeast infections always go with reduced or eliminated LAB and others that are supposed to be around. Yogurt can be applied directly to the effected area as treatment.
An experiment involving gut flora and digestive issues leading to obesity recently found that a fecal transplant from a healthy individual can rehabilitate a messed up digestive tract. Yes, you read me right - they transplanted shit from one person's intestine to another's, and cured disease that way.
So interaction between beneficial resident microbes and invading parasites is not clearly understood.
In humans, yeast infections always go with reduced or eliminated LAB and others that are supposed to be around. Yogurt can be applied directly to the effected area as treatment.
An experiment involving gut flora and digestive issues leading to obesity recently found that a fecal transplant from a healthy individual can rehabilitate a messed up digestive tract. Yes, you read me right - they transplanted shit from one person's intestine to another's, and cured disease that way.
So interaction between beneficial resident microbes and invading parasites is not clearly understood.
