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  • Probiotics with antibiotics: Let’s follow the evidence
    In this blog, experts address a media article on probiotics with antibiotics and advocate for using evidence instead of weak but plausible-sounding recommendations.
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    Fido Needs an Antibiotic: Are There Strategies to Maintain Gut Integrity and Restore Gut Microbiota?
    Despite their risks and complications, antimicrobials have their role in managing canine diarrhea and gastrointestinal enteropathies. So, what can be done to minimize the negative effects that they have on stool quality and microbial disruption?

  • Emerging clinical insights into C. difficile infection from gut microbiota research
    In recent years the clinical status and spectrum of C. difficile infection have shifted. The prevalence of this infection has risen sharply. Along with changes that have occurred in the clinical patterns of this disorder, research on the gut microbiome has provided insights into the important factors that contribute to the infection.

  • What’s a Clinician to do When the Probiotic Recommendations from Medical Organizations Do Not Agree?
    By Prof. Hania Szajewska, MD, Department of Paediatrics, The Medical University of Warsaw, Poland The scientific literature on probiotics is…

  • L. rhamnosus GG for treatment of acute pediatric diarrhea: the totality of current evidence
    For the past several years, studies have been adding to the evidence base on the efficacy of Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG…