Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Chitooligosaccharides on Pathogenic Halophilic Vibrio parahaemolyticus

Chitosan is a natural biopolymer of N-acetylglucosamine (-1,4 linked 2-acetamido-D-glucose), which is obtained after alkaline deacetylation of the chitin derived from the cell walls of lower plants and in the skeletal tissues of lower animals including arthropods and mollusks. In the recent studies, chitin and chitosan have attracted interest for converting them to oligosaccharides because the oligosaccharides are not only water-soluble but also possess versatile functional properties such as antimicobial activity (Jeon and Kim, 2000; Jeon et al., 2001). (omitted)