Are probiotics detectable in human feces after oral uptake by healthy volunteers?

Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 119, Issue 15-16, 2007, Pages 456-462

  Prilassnig, Martina ^a   Wenisch, Christoph ^a   Daxboeck, Florian ^b   Feierl, Gebhard ^c  

^a Medizinische Abteilung mit Infektions und Tropenmedizin   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Intestinal colonization; Probiotics; Random amplification of polymorphic DNA

Indexed keywords

ACTIMEL; ANTIBIOPHILUS; BIOFLORIN; INFLORAN; MUTAFLOR; OMNIFLORA; PROBIOTIC AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM LONGUM INFANTIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DNA EXTRACTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LACTOBACILLUS ACIDOPHILUS; LACTOBACILLUS CASEI; LACTOBACILLUS GASSERI; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS; MALE; METEORISM; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HUMANS; LACTOBACILLUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROBIOTICS;

EID: 34548533370     PISSN: 00435325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00508-007-0808-1     Document Type: Article

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