A review of dose-responses of probiotics in human studies

Beneficial Microbes

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 143-151

  Ouwehand, A C ^a  

^a DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotic associated diarrhoea; Bifidobacterium; Dose response; Lactobacillus

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PROBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; ANTIBIOTIC ASSOCIATED DIARRHEA; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COLORECTAL CANCER; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; INTESTINE ABSORPTION; IRRITABLE COLON; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; RISK REDUCTION; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; DIETARY SUPPLEMENT; GASTROENTERITIS; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; SACCHAROMYCES BOULARDII;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS; PROBIOTICS; SACCHAROMYCES BOULARDII;

EID: 85018288530     PISSN: 18762883     EISSN: 18762891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3920/BM2016.0140     Document Type: Article

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