Yong-Qi Gan

Comparative genomic and phenotypic profiling of commercial probiotic Enterococcus faecium strains: insights into safety and functional attributes

Enterococcus faecium is widely used in probiotics but can also act as an opportunistic pathogen, necessitating strain-specific safety and efficacy assessments. While previous studies have characterized individual E. faecium probiotic strains, few have provided an integrated genomic and phenotypic comparison of multiple...