A prospective randomised study of the probiotic Lactobacillus plantarum 299v on indices of gut barrier function in elective surgical patients

Gut

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 827-831

  McNaught, C E ^a   Woodcock, N P ^a   MacFie, John ^a   Mitchell, C J ^a  

^a SCARBOROUGH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBIOTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; INTESTINE FUNCTION; INTESTINE SURGERY; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MESENTERY LYMPH NODE; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SEROSA; STOMACH;

ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; GASTRIC MUCOSA; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; LACTOBACILLUS; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROBIOTICS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0036895047     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.51.6.827     Document Type: Article

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