Safety and tolerance of three probiotic strains in healthy infants: A multi-centre randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

Beneficial Microbes

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 569-578

  Manzano, S ^a,b   De Andres J ^a   Castro, I ^a   Rodriguez J M ^a,b   Jimenez E ^a,b   Espinosa Martos, I ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b Probisearch   (Spain)

Author keywords

Clinical trial; Healthy infants; Probiotics; Safety and tolerance

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID; PLACEBO; PROBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM BIFIDUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM LONGUM SUBSP. INFANTIS; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYING; DIARRHEA; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FEVER; GROWTH RATE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LACTOBACILLUS HELVETICUS; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RASH; SLEEP PATTERN; TREATMENT DURATION; URINALYSIS; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD HEALTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FECES; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEAD; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM BIFIDUM; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FECES; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT HEALTH; LACTOBACILLUS HELVETICUS; MALE; PROBIOTICS;

EID: 85028404939     PISSN: 18762883     EISSN: 18762891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3920/BM2017.0009     Document Type: Article

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