Probiotics

American Family Physician

Volumn 78, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1073-1078

  Kligler, Benjamin ^a,c   Cohrssen, Andreas ^b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Beth Israel Residency in Urban Family Practice   (United States)

^c Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBIOTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ANTIBIOTIC ASSOCIATED DIARRHEA; ANTIBIOTIC ASSOCIATED DIRRHEA; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; DRUG MECHANISM; ENTERITIS; FLATULENCE; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS DIARRHEA; IRRITABLE COLON; LACTOBACILLUS; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES BOULARDII; SEPTICEMIA; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VAGINA CANDIDIASIS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; LACTOBACILLUS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROBIOTICS;

EID: 58149156514     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: 0002838X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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