Are probiotics or prebiotics useful in pediatric irritable bowel syndrome or inflammatory bowel disease?

Frontiers in Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Guandalini, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Crohn's disease; Functional gastrointestinal disorders; Inflammatory bowel disease; Irritable bowel syndrome; Lactobacillus; Probiotics; Ulcerative colitis; VSL 3

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930814245     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296858X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2014.00023     Document Type: Short Survey

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