by Hippolyte Tene Mouafo¹,²,³*, Arsène Joseph Manga Mbarga⁴, Linda Davares Anyutoulou Kitio⁴, Aayesha Riaz⁶, Shahida Anusha Siddiqui⁷,⁸, Shakira Ghazanfar², Muhammad Naeem Riaz², Wajya Ajmal², Ibrahim Khelifi⁴, Cedric Franck Ngumete Mbe⁹, Rayan Kamal Njifenjou⁴, Nora Delabrousse Michèle¹⁰, Ghulam Muhammad Ali², Waseem Haider³, and Jose Manual Lorenzo⁸.
1 Centre for Food, Food Security and Nutrition Research, Institute of Medical Research and Medicinal Plant Studies, PoBox 13033 Yaoundé, Cameroon
2 National Institute for Genomics and Advanced Biotechnology, National Agricultural Research Centre (NARC), Park Road, Islamabad-45500, Pakistan
3 Department of Biosciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, 45500, Pakistan,
4 Department of Microbiology, V.S. Kiktenko, Medical Institute, RUDN University Named after Patrice Lumumba, Moscow,Russia
5 Department of Parasitology and Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, PMAS-Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan
6 Technical University of Munich Campus Straubing for Biotechnology and Sustainability, Essigberg 3, 94315 Straubing, Germany
7 German Institute of Food Technologies, Prof.-von-Klitzing Str. 7, 49610, D-Quakenbrück, Germany
8 Centro Tecnológico de la Carne de Galicia, Rúa Galicia N° 4, Parque Tecnológico de Galicia, San Cibrao das Viñas, 32900 Ourense, Spain
9 Department of Cardiology, Ryazan State Medical Faculty, 390026 Ryazan, Russia
10 Department of Ecology, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), 117198 Moscow, Russia
*Corresponding author: [email protected]
Multidisciplinaris, 1(1), 1–25. https://doi.org/10.63156/multi01
Received: 02.01.2025 Accepted: 27.05.2025 Published online: 25.06.2025
Nowadays, there is a rise in the prevalence of cardiometabolic diseases and the phenomena of multiple antibiotics resistance in humans and animals. For these reasons, consumers’ interest towards natural products for the management of health issues has increased worldwide. The sector of probiotics which stands as a safe and efficient example of these natural products is currently of growing interest. Indeed, probiotics are microorganisms with demonstrated safety issues for which consumption is associated to positive effects on the host’s health. There are several studies dealing with probiotics in the literature. In this study, the focus was made on the state of art of research on probiotics in Cameroon. This review paper brings deep insights on the studies on probiotics performed in Cameroon. It highlights the reported sources of probiotics, and the different methods used for the isolation and identification of these health benefits microorganisms. It also provides information on the different techniques used for the functional characterization of the probiotic properties of the strains. Finally, it also highlights the different fields where the applications of probiotics were reported.
