Therapeutic microbiology: The role of bifidobacterium breve as food supplement for the prevention/treatment of paediatric diseases

Nutrients

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2018, Pages

  Bozzi Cionci, Nicole ^a   Baffoni, Loredana ^a   Gaggìa, Francesca ^a   Di Gioia, Diana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bifidobacterium breve; Paediatrics; Probiotics; Therapeutic microbiology

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN 4; PROBIOTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; BIFIDOBACTERIUM BREVE; CHILD; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DIETARY SUPPLEMENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFANT; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; SEPSIS; CELIAC DISEASE; CHILDHOOD OBESITY; COLIC; COMPLICATION; DYSBIOSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HYPERSENSITIVITY; INTESTINE FLORA; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; PEDIATRICS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREMATURITY;

BIFIDOBACTERIUM BREVE; CELIAC DISEASE; CHILD; COLIC; DYSBIOSIS; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; INFANT; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; PEDIATRIC OBESITY; PEDIATRICS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROBIOTICS;

EID: 85056532017     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nu10111723     Document Type: Review

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