Abstract

Foodborne diseases are worldwide problem for human health. They resulted from various sources of food pollutions with pathogens and their ingestion causes human intestinal infections. Hence, various methods are undertaken to inhibit and prevent the activity of foodborne pathogen. The biological control of diseases is more efficient and gained interest as use of probiotics. They employed in the prevention and control of GIT infections. The viability of probiotics bacteria in therapy is related to their activities to modulate the immune response of human and formation of intestinal barrier that suppress the viability of GIT pathogens. Hence, this chapter highlights the foodborne diseases, sources of pollutions, and actions of probiotics against different infections of pathogens. Moreover, different mechanisms of action, methods of delivery, and factors required for ideal benefits of probiotics are fully discussed. In addition, the safety and risk hazard of their use in human health have also been illustrated.

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