1- Irving, W., Ala'Aldeen, D., and Boswell, T. 2005. Medical microbiology. Tylor and Francis group. New York. P. 133.
2- Scott II, R. and Roberts, R. 2008. The attributable costs of resistant infections in hospital settings: economic theory and application. In: Antimicrobial resistance problem pathogens and clinical countermeasures (R. Owens, Jr., and E. Lautenbach, eds.). Infrorma healthcare Inc. New York. P. 1.
3- Riaz, S., Nawaz, S. and Hasnain, S. 2010. Bacteriocins produced by L. fermentum and L. acidophilus can ihnibit cephalosporin resistant E. coli. Brazilian J. Microbiol. 41: 643-648.
4- Al-Mathkhury, H. and Al-Aubeidi, H. 2008. Probiotic effect of lactobacilli on mice wound insicional infections. J. Al-Nahrain University sci. 11: 111-116.
5- Kim, Y., Oh, S., Park, S. et al. 2008. Lactobacillus acidophilus reduces expression of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 virulence factors by inhibiting autoinducer-2-like activity. Food control. 19: 1042-1050.
6- Al-Mathkhury, H. and Hasan, A. 2011. Effect of Lactobacilli sources on Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus adherence to uroepithelial cells. Baghdad J. Sci. in press.
7- Scheutz, F. and Strockbine, N. (2005). Genus Esherichia. In: Bergey’s manual of systematic bacteriology .2nd ed. Vol. Two: The Proteobacteria Part B: The Gammaproteobacteria (Garrity, G., Brenner, D., Krieg, N. and Staley, J. eds.). pp. 607-625.
8- Forbes, B., Sahm, D.. and Weissfeld, A..2007. Bailey & Scott's Diagnostic Microbiology. 12th ed. Mosby Elsevier. Texas, USA.
9- Holt , J. G. , Krieg , N. R. , Sneath , P. H. A. , Staley , J. T. and Williams , S. T. (1994). Bergy’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology . 9th ed. Williams and Willkin . Maryland , USA.
10- Bauer, A. W., Kirby , W. M. , Sherris , J. C. and Turch, M. (1966). Antibiotic susceptibility testing by astandardized single disk method . Am. J. Clin. Pathol. 36(3):493-496.
11- Ligocka, A. and Paluszak, Z. 2005. Capability of lactic acid bacteria to inhibit pathogens in sewage sludge subjected to biotechnological processes". Bull. Vet. Inst. Pulawy. Vol. 49, , pp, 23-27.
12- Sousa, R., Halper, J., Zhang, J., et al. 2008. Effect of Lactobacillus acidophilus supernatants on body weight and leptin expression in rats BMC Complement. Altern. Med. 8: 5-9.
13- Ramos, A.N., Gobbato N., Rachid M., et al. 2010. Effect of Lactobacillus plantarum and Pseudomonas aeruginosa culture supernatants on polymorphonuclear damage and inflammatory response. Inter. Immunopharmacol. 10: 247–251.
14- Ikeagwu, I., Amadi, E., and Iroha, I. 2008. Antibiotic sensitivity pattern of Staphylococcus aureus in Abakaliki, Nigeria. Pak. J. Med. Sci. 24: 231-235.
15- Mctaggart , L. A. ; Rigby , R. C. and Elliot , T. S. (1990). The pathogenicity of urinary tract infection associated with Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus saprophyticus and S. epidermidis. J. Med. Microbiol. 32:135-141.
16- Bancroft , J. and S. Steven (1982). Frozen and related section. In: Theory and Practice of histological technique. (Bancroft and Steven, eds) 2nd ed. Churchil livingstone , London. P. 82-94.
17- O’Connell, R., Saha, S., and Cheng, G. 2005. Combating Bacterial Pathogens Through Host Defense Gene Programs Curr. Immunol. Rev. 1: 43-54.