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Abstract
Infants and children attending day-care centres demonstrate a notably higher risk of gastrointestinal as well as of respiratory tract infections. The present short review evaluates various well-controlled clinical trials analysing the effect of probiotics and prebiotics in the prevention of such infections. In most of the 12 studies identified, probiotic supplementation was found to be a safe and effective therapeutic tool in preventing gastrointestinal and respiratory infection in this population.Entities:
Keywords: children; day-care centres; infection; prebiotics; probiotics
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Year: 2015 PMID: 25391348 DOI: 10.3920/BM2014.0101
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Benef Microbes ISSN: 1876-2883 Impact factor: 4.205