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High level infant mortality rates and onset of drug resistance has led into the possible development of indige-nous probiotics as altative bacteriotherapy in the control of infantile bacterial diarrhoea.This study was to determine the in vitro inhibitory potential of four probiotic candidates obtained from Nigerian indigenous fer-mented foods and beverages and from faecal specimens of healthy infants on infantile Gram-positive diarrhogen-ic bacterial pathogens.Potential probiotic candidates,AAOOL4,L.reuteri AAOOCH1,L.plantarum AAOO25 NN and L.delbrueckii AAOOT20 were assayed for in vitro bactericidal effects on diarrhogenic bacte-rial test strains-Bacillus cereus 25S,B.cereus 32S,B.licheniformis 26S and B.licheniformis 39S.All the test strains inoculated into an industrial infant weaning food already seeded with the probiotic strains were sig-nificantly inhibited within 96 hours. L. acidophilus AAOOL4, L. reuteri AAOOCH1 , L. plantarum AAOO25 NN and L.delbrueckii AAOOT20 had in vitro bactericidal effects on bacteri isolates implicated in in-fantile diarrhoea,indicating the probiotic potential of the candidates.