Probiotics: A new treatment for antibiotic-associated diarrhea?

Digestion

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 49-50

  Meier, Rémy F ^a  

^a Kantonsspital Liestal   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; PROBIOTIC AGENT; SULTAMICILLIN;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE COST; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION; LACTOBACILLUS ACIDOPHILUS; LACTOBACILLUS CASEI; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS; META ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES BOULARDII; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DIARRHEA; HUMANS; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS; PROBIOTICS;

EID: 24344446266     PISSN: 00122823     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000087601     Document Type: Editorial

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