| As a class of compounds, they are commonly referred to as bacteriocins. |
| They produce antibiotics known as bacteriocins that are poisonous to their own species. |
| Preliminary data indicate bacteriocins may be effective in reducing other foodborne bacteria such as Salmonella and Escherichia coli. |
| The bacteriocins reduced the numbers of Campylobacter by a millionfold when fed to chickens. |
| Their effort includes the analysis and exploitation of natural antimicrobial phenomena such as lantibiotics, bacteriocins and bacteriophage lysins. |
| It is becoming evident however that some strains that appear to have similar spectra of inhibitory activity produce quite different bacteriocins. |
