Effect of Prebiotics-Enhanced Probiotics on the Growth of Streptococcus mutans

Table 2

Growth rate of S. mutans grown individually and cocultured in different concentrations of prebiotics in the MRS medium.

Prebiotic concentration (%)	GOS (%v/v)		FOS (%w/v)
	Individual culture	Coculture	Individual culture	Coculture
0 (control)	0.9921 ± 0.14^A,a	0.9623 ± 0.17^A,a	0.9921 ± 0.14^X,x	0.9623 ± 0.17^X,x
1	1.0058 ± 0.13^A,a	0.8391 ± 0.19^A,a	0.5419 ± 0.01^X,x	0.5209 ± 0.09^Y,x
2	0.9099 ± 0.29^A,a	1.0272 ± 0.01^A,C,a	0.6467 ± 0.07^X,x	0.5683 ± 0.10^Y,x
3	0.7104 ± 0.02^A,a	0.3775 ± 0.06^B,a	0.2998 ± 0.11^Y,x	0.2281 ± 0.12^Z,x
4	1.1588 ± 0.37^A,a	0.4672 ± 0.12^B,a	0.5604 ± 0.07 ^X, x	0.5724 ± 0.06^Y,x
5	0.9070 ± 017^A,a	0.5491 ± 0.09^B,a	0.7123 ± 0.06^X,x	0.3429 ± 0.07^Z,x

Note. The statistics compared within each type of prebiotics. The uppercase letters indicate the significant difference within each column. The lowercase letters indicate the significant difference within each row.