Systematic review with meta-analysis: Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG for treating acute gastroenteritis in children – a 2019 update

Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2019, Pages 1376-1384

  Szajewska, Hania ^a   Kołodziej, Maciej ^a   Gieruszczak Białek, Dorota ^a   Skórka, Agata ^a   Ruszczyński, Marek ^a   Shamir, Raanan ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; CLINICAL OUTCOME; CLINICAL SEVERITY SCORE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; DIARRHEA; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EUROPE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS GG; META ANALYSIS; OUTPATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; STOOL VOLUME; VACCINATION; ACUTE DISEASE; CHILD; GASTROENTERITIS;

PROBIOTIC AGENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHILD; DIARRHEA; GASTROENTERITIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS; PROBIOTICS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 85065165005     PISSN: 02692813     EISSN: 13652036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/apt.15267     Document Type: Review

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