Probiotics: Isolated bacteria strain or mixtures of different strains? Two different approaches in the use of probiotics as therapeutics

Drugs of Today

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 565-597

  Karimi, O ^a   Pena A S ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PROBIOTIC AGENT;

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM BREVE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM LONGUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM LONGUM INFANTIS; CROHN DISEASE; DIARRHEA; ENTERITIS; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; ILEITIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOREGULATION; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINE FLORA; IRRITABLE COLON; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS ACIDOPHILUS; LACTOBACILLUS CASEI; LACTOBACILLUS DELBRUECKII; LACTOBACILLUS FERMENTUM; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES BOULARDII; STREPTOCOCCUS SALIVARIUS; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; VACCINATION;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; CLINICAL TRIALS; DIARRHEA; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; PORTRAITS; PROBIOTICS;

EID: 0142056852     PISSN: 16993993     EISSN: 16994019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1358/dot.2003.39.8.799406     Document Type: Review

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