Strain-specificity and disease-specificity of probiotic efficacy: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Frontiers in Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue MAY, 2018, Pages

  McFarland, Lynne V ^a   Evans, Charlesnika T ^b,c   Goldstein, Ellie J C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HINES VA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotic associated diarrhea; Clostridium difficile; Disease specificity; Lactobacillus; Meta analysis; Pooling data; Probiotic strains; Saccharomyces; Strain specificity

Indexed keywords

EID: 85050141029     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296858X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2018.00124     Document Type: Review

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