BACKGROUND Recent advances in culture-independent approaches have enabled insights into the diversity, complexity, and individual variability of gut microbial communities. OBJECTIVES To examine the effect of oral administration of Saccharomyces (S.) boulardii and mode of delivery on the intestinal microbial community in preterm infants. STUDY DESIGN Stool samples were collected from preterm...

Probiotics are increasingly used for prevention and treatment of diarrhea more in children than in adults. Given the broad spectrum of diarrhea, this review focuses on the main etiologies: acute gastroenteritis, antibiotic-associated diarrhea (AAD), and necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). For each, we reviewed randomized controlled trials, meta-analyses, and guidelines. For acute gastroenteritis w...

Probiotics are live microorganisms which when administered in adequate amounts confer a health benefit on the host. The concept of individual microorganisms influencing the makeup of T cell subsets via interactions with intestinal dendritic cells (DCs) appears to constitute the foundation for immunoregulatory effects of probiotics, and several studies have reported probiotic strains resulting i...

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the potential of probiotics or biotherapeutic agents for the prevention and/or treatment of selected intestinal infections. METHODS: Medline database was searched for all relevant articles between 1990 and February 1998. Bibliographies of articles were also used. All animal experiments and placebo-controlled human studies were reviewed in order to provide information on t...

There is a growing concern regarding the recurrent observation of aflatoxins (AFs) in the milk of lactating animals. Regarding this, the present study was conducted to assess the aflatoxin M1 (AFM1)-binding ability of three species, namely Lactobacillus rhamnosus, L. plantarum, and Saccharomyces boulardii, inAFM1-contaminatedmilk. The mentioned species were a...

c 2016 The Korean Society of Neurogastroenterology and Motility J Neurogastroenterol Motil, Vol. 22 No. 3 July, 2016 www.jnmjournal.org TO THE EDITOR: We read with interest the meta-analyses by Mazurak et al in which the authors suggest that the use of different probiotics appears to have limited evidence for efficacy in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Trials with single-strain probiotic reveal...

The effect of adding Saccharomyces boullardii in soya yoghurt was studied. control made with milk and traditional starter culture (Lactobacillus bulgaricus Streptococcus thermophilus) while the other three treatments were by 1%, 2%, 3% S. boulardii starter. Proximate composition all determined after fermentation time. Shelf-life evaluation treatment observed during storage During proximate eval...